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Our Lady of the Ruins

Poems

by Traci Brimhall

Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems. Norton. Apr. 2012. 96p. ISBN 9780393086430. pap. $15.95. POETRY

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Chosen by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, this book gathers the voices of women traveling together as pilgrims in a world enduring apocalypse. Incantatory and dispassionate, the voices are sometimes first person singular and sometimes, unusually and effectively, first person plural.

Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Apr 15, 2012

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