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...
Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Miriam Bird Greenberg s stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting...