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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 βThe Troubadours etc.β
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. Szybistβs formal innovations are matched by her musical lines, by her poetryβs insistence on singing as a lure toward the unknowable. Inside these poems is a deep yearningβfor love, motherhood, the will to see things as they are and to speak. Beautiful and inventive, Incarnadine is the new collection by one of Americaβs most ambitious poets.
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - November 21, 2013
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