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What does it mean to pray or praise in the twenty-first century? What does it mean to lament, to attend? In this volatile, visionary debut collection, Danielle Chapman seeks �to be known / in one�s own person as crocuses are known / by sun, conceiving green to breathe it / for ravishment by light.� Driven toward stark landscapes and �nowheres� of the spirit, these poems steadfastly seek the lyrical and spiritual promise implicit in difficulty�where �spring sing[s] slime / through snail stones� and �the river�s cashmere roiled.� Chapman�s work testifies to the revelation and the anguish of love, and to the possibility of finding grace in the �interstices of pain / where God�s green / meets man�s limestone.� These hard-edged, wry, and intricately musical poems deliver a life that has been felt to its limits, and transformed into singular art. (less)

What does it mean to pray or praise in the twenty-first century? What does it mean to lament, to attend? In this volatile, visionary debut collection, Danielle Chapman seeks �to be known / in one�s own person as crocuses are known / (…more)