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?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/02/2012
ISBN: 9780393086430
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/16/2012 pg. 35
Booklist 03/15/2012 pg. 13
Library Journal 04/15/2012 pg. 82