Our Lady of the Ruins

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?