<p>Poetry. THE SPINNING PLACE considers the body as the origin of ecstasy and agony, revealing how language--its possibilities and limits--bridges us to one another, but also shatters intimacy. The collection's three sections examine origin, exile, and the reconciliation of praise and sorrow with lyric precision and the heart of storytelling. The poems ask us to behold the ordinary astonishment of birth, motherhood, and faith: to witness the everyday as though it were sacred.</p>

The Spinning Place

Literature & Fiction

Wagenaar, Chelsea

Poetry

Southern Indiana Review Press

<p>Poetry. "It is not often that one encounters mastery in a debut book of poems, but that is exactly what happens in Chelsea Wagenaar's MERCY SPURS THE BONE, where the poems are crafted into light-filled islands of lyric selfhood, small Edens of conceptual originality and rigorously precise language. Writing in an elliptical style, Wagenaar achieves that articulation of being, that mysterious symbiosis of self and world, which is at the very heart of poetry. A double gift, then: this brilliant beginning, and more than sufficient promise of the wonders that are sure to follow."—B.H. Fairchild</p>

Mercy Spurs the Bone

Anhinga Press

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Mercy Spurs the Bone