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Graywolf Press
February 2013
On Sale: February 5, 2013
70 pages
ISBN: 1555976352
EAN: 9781555976354
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Fiction Poetry
The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist,
author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award * A Finalist for the 2013
National Book Award for Poetry * * A
Publishers Weekly Top Five Poetry Book of 2013
* The troubadours
knew how to burn themselves
through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own
longing.
The spectacular was never behind
them.
-from “The Troubadours etc.”
In
Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places
where meaning might take on new color. One poem is presented
as a diagrammed sentence. Another is an abecedarium made of
lines of dialogue spoken by girls overheard while assembling
a puzzle. Several poems arrive as a series of Annunciations,
while others purport to give an update on Mary, who must
finish the dishes before she will open herself to God. One
poem appears on the page as spokes radiating from a wheel,
or as a sunburst, or as the cycle around which all times and
all tenses are alive in this moment. Szybist’s formal
innovations are matched by her musical lines, by her
poetry’s insistence on singing as a lure toward the
unknowable. Inside these poems is a deep yearning—for love,
motherhood, the will to see things as they are and to speak.
Beautiful and inventive, Incarnadine is the new
collection by one of America’s most ambitious poets.
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