In the Volcano's Mouth

ISBN-13: 9780822964339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str.

Miriam Bird Greenberg

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Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Miriam Bird Greenberg s stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth ( I d spent my childhood / in a house made of bees; on hot days honey // dripped through cracks in the ceiling, she writes). Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg s experiences hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across North America, or draw from her informal interviews with contemporary nomads, hobos, and others living on society s edges. Beneath their surface runs a current of violence, whether at the hands of fate or men: she writes Everyone knows // what happens to women // who hitchhike, constantly // trying a door to the other world made of lake / bottom or low forest, abandoned house // even wild animals / have rejected. The result is a queering of On the Road, a feminist Frank Stanford at once vulnerable and canny. Richly textured, In the Volcano s Mouth is an extraordinary portrait of life on the enchanted margins."