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About The Book
A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction
Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones) beneath the appearance (or skin) of a situation.
This poetry is at once memento mori — a reminder and celebration of our mortality — and a lyrical exploration of the spirituality of the mundane, the possibility for revelation found in the commonplace.
The universe’s heart is a ruined house.
Written on the door is this:
you cannot do a thing that has not already been done.
— from “On the Occasion of a Book Burning”
Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones) beneath the appearance (or skin) of a situation.
This poetry is at once memento mori — a reminder and celebration of our mortality — and a lyrical exploration of the spirituality of the mundane, the possibility for revelation found in the commonplace.
The universe’s heart is a ruined house.
Written on the door is this:
you cannot do a thing that has not already been done.
— from “On the Occasion of a Book Burning”
Product Details
- Publisher: ECW Press (October 1, 2012)
- Length: 68 pages
- ISBN13: 9781770411074
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Raves and Reviews
“Buying the collection leads to more loves.” — Chronicle Herald
“Lovely and strange, promising plenty of poems that are ‘half drunk on moonlight / like froth from a dish of freezing milk’ — while staying quiet and intimate, drawing the reader in with a conversational tone and the promise of future intimacy.” — The American Reader
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