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Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems by Traci Brimhall
4.0

Bitter and imaginative and full of fantastic imagery. It's one of those poetry collections I connect to on an intellectual rather than an emotional level, however. The sense of dislocation is almost too successful, which makes it challenging to follow along and feel towards - but then I like challenging reads, so...