Locomotive Cathedral

<p>With wit and vulnerability Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic race and the concept of a self all while celebrating the power of breath as baptism on repeat. Whether her inspiration is twelfth-century Buddhist mind-training slogans or the one-footed crow who visits her daily France de Bravo mines the tension between the human desire for permanence and control and life's fluid ungraspable nature. Poem by poem essay by essay she builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship marriage and ceding our place on Earth: not dying but molting. </p><p></p><p><strong>Brandel France de Bravo</strong> is the author of the poetry collections <em>Provenance</em> and <em>Mother Loose</em> and the editor of <em>Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices</em>. Her poems have appeared in <em>Best American Poetry 2024</em> <em>32 Poems</em> <em>Barrow Street</em> <em>Conduit</em> <em>Diode</em> <em>Salamander</em> <em>Southern Humanities Review</em> and elsewhere.</p><p></p>