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?