The Trailhead

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¿I'm learning to allow for visions, ¿ the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that history. A ¿conversion narrative¿ of sorts, the book examines the self as a ¿burned-over district, ¿ individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book¿s sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when vertebrae fuse, " the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered calling¿a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice¿and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.

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