Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems

Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women throughtheir pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world. Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, thesepoems 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?