April Bernard
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When feminist, journalist, and orator Margaret Fuller's family is drowned off the coast of New York upon their return from Europe, Henry David Thoreau visits the site of their shipwreck and discovers a revealing personal document of hers.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Balancing emotional openness with formal restraint, April Bernard proves once again a poet who 'harmonizes the raucous and the classic, the songful and the wry, the courtly and the quick' (Wayne Koestenbaum). Throughout her sixth collection, Bernard searches for 'the world behind the world,' a spiritual realm of justice and peace, music and grace. The host of saints present in this parallel world includes poets--John Ashbery, Thomas Wyatt, Gerard...