A Violence: Poems

By: Paula Bohince

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Synopsis: 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.