Our Lady of the Ruins : Poems

Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world.  Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers haunted by empire, God, and personal trauma. from “Hysteria: A Requiem” Now, in the last world, we bury nightingales     beneath the floor.     Trackers with their ears to the ground listen                                        for angels approaching. Where is the saint,              mortally torn and wearing a hood of stars,     bearing her own redemption?