Poetry. NOTES TO THE BELOVED is full of the physical world, illuminated by a dynamic narrative sensibility, a vision of down-to-earth love, an active yearning to understand the world, and plenty of kick-ass images, metaphors, and similes: "You make a matchstick of your finger, / dunk the tip in Bombshell Red. / Then your lips are two flickers, / in the shadows of your ears, smoldering / flowers. You draw a smoky line / between lid and lash and dash out."

Notes to the Beloved

Literature & Fiction

Bitting, Michelle

Poetry

C&R Press

Poetry. Women's Studies. These meditations, cosmic-toned, yet utterly visceral, demonstrate Michelle Bitting's continuing growth and power as a poet of love, loss, the daily and deeply human experience, together with a maturing eye to understanding greater mythological tropes. Woven throughout her contemplation of the terrible beauty and struggle of family dynamics, corporeal desire, the injustices and revelations of life in the 21st century, thrums a vital connectivity to the mystic and mythological strains of the past, newfangled to the present in a way that ultimately sheds light on what it is to be alive and conscious of who we're called to be. To read Michelle's poetry is to take a wild, passionate ride through the rubble of the quotidian, to be shocked by sensual discovery and awakened to a relentless curiosity for both the surreal and historical. These poems travel—an expansion in service of communion with the world, confrontation and acceptance of self.

The Couple Who Fell To Earth

Poetry. NOTES TO THE BELOVED is full of the physical world, illuminated by a dynamic narrative sensibility, a vision of down-to-earth love, an active yearning to understand the world, and plenty of kick-ass images, metaphors, and similes: "You make a matchstick of your finger, / dunk the tip in Bombshell Red. / Then your lips are two flickers, / in the shadows of your ears, smoldering / flowers. You draw a smoky line / between lid and lash and dash out."

Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize\nIn Nightmares & Miracles, Michelle Bitting again proves herself as a poet, her inquiries vital and deep, her concerns darkly personal and conscientiously worldly. Charged with remarkable imagination and formal dexterity, these poems ring with clarity and precision. Michelle deftly navigates the “unglamorous” noir territories of personal and political trauma while embracing the erotic mess of domestic life as “unstoppable fire” where she ultimately concludes “every stroke(‘s) a masterpiece…” She threads myth, loss, and love into intricate braids of bold prose and lyrical turns, holding her readers spellbound. --Dorianne Laux

Nightmares & Miracles

Two Sylvias Press

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Notes to the Beloved

The Couple Who Fell To Earth

Notes to the Beloved

Nightmares & Miracles