Violence

A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as ';beautiful and riveting' (Los Angeles Review of Books)A poetic representation of PTSD and its evocative bewilderments, Paula Bohince's mesmerizing new collection, A Violence, is written at inflection points: a waking from dissociation borne from a harrowing childhood; a breakdown; and a struggle toward wholeness by means of mystified recollection amid ecological disturbances. Praised for poems that ';reward enormously upon first encounter, and only more so upon subsequent reads' (The Rumpus), Bohince is here alert to surprise, the enthralling image ';rushing through such wreckage a brain becomes.' Contemplating vulnerability and resilience in the entwined human and natural worlds, with a voice precise and powerful, A Violence is a haunting collection that builds symphonically to recover a self ';gone away,' where the ordinary is imbued with transcendental significance.