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The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations
Poems by Brenda Coultas
Incorporating memoir, folktales, fact, and hearsay into two distinctly moving poems, Brenda Coultas continues her ongoing, first person, investigative project on American history and its obsession with mythmaking, genealogy, and the paranormal to create revelatory, narrative-driven poetry. “The Abolition Journal” begins in the author’s Indiana hometown, not far from the childhood home of Abraham Lincoln, and along the Kentucky border where “looking from the free state / there is a river then a slave state.” Here, Coultas delves into her personal history and uncovers a land still troubled by the specter of slavery.
In “A Lonely Cemetery,” Coultas collects and investigates “true” tales of UFO sightings, poltergeists, legendary monsters, mysterious houses, and eerie crematoriums, exploring the very nature of narrative truth through the lens of the ghost story. As history becomes the stuff of legends, Coultas is a reliable guide through the memories, myths, and memorabilia that manifest in the present moment.
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