Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems - Traci Brimhall

nWinner 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 RequiemNow, in the last world, we bury nightingales n beneath the floor. n Trackers with their ears to the ground listen n for angels approaching. n nWhere is the saint, mortally torn and wearing a nhood of stars, n bearing her own redemption? nWinner 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 n beneath the floor. n Trackers with their ears to the ground listen n for angels approaching. n n Where is the saint, mortally torn and wearing a n hood of stars, n bearing her own redemption? nWinner 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 n beneath the floor. n Trackers with their ears to the ground listen n for angels approaching. n n Where is the saint, mortally torn and wearing a n hood of stars, n bearing her own redemption? nWinner 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 n beneath the floor. n Trackers with their ears to the ground listen n for angels approaching. n n Where is the saint, mortally torn and wearing a n hood of stars, n bearing her own redemption? nWinner 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 searc