 | The Wild Night Dress: Poems Finalist, 2017 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins "A graceful synthesis of poetry and science." --Billy Collins Laura McCullough finds passage through the darkest times as she loses, in short order, her mother and her marriage. Through her near unbearable grief, she creates poems that slip between science and nature as she grasps at coordinates in a world spun out of its orbit. From the God Particle to toroidal vortexes, from the slippery linguistics of translation to the translation of the body, McCullough brings readers to the mystery of surrender, and the paradox that what we bear can make us more beautiful, that there is a gift in grief. Laura McCullough is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, Jersey Mercy. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry , Georgia Review , American Poetry Review , Southern Review , Prairie Schooner , and many other journals and magazines. She teaches at Brookdale Community College, and she is the founding editor of Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations . |
