Our Lady of the Ruins

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.

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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?