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The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations
Reviews
American Book Review:
“[Coultas is] not just rehashing history, but examining how it has become embedded in a landscape and language with which she is on intimate terms. . . . This poet truly shines, as she packs significance into a few ordinary words.”
Barbara Henning:
“Great advice for living.”
Longhouse Publishers & Booksellers:
“A marvelous marvel of a book.”
Bernadette Mayer, Poetry Project Newsletter:
“One-of-a-kind.”
Rain Taxi:
“Ripples with good storytelling . . . Coultas circumnavigates her terrain with a dead-pan diction that is equal parts reflective, uncanny, and very funny.”
Rikki Ducornet:
“As the title suggests, The Marvelous Bones of Time is a meditation on earthly things: vanished nations, the mutable names of rivers, the clues left behind when families disperse; terror and beauty, the banalized crimes of complicity, the diversions of superstition—but also the persistence of clairvoyance. Resistance in the form of a poem such as this.”
Edward Sanders:
“This is a revelatory book. Ornamentally eerie in its mix of the poet’s personal history with the history of her home county in Indiana, and its past during its Civil War era. This sort of commingling of personal poesy with the facts of history—daring to be a part of the chronology of one’s own time—is what Charles Olson and Allen Ginsberg were bringing to the fore of modern verse. The final parts of the book feature fascinating narratives of the poet’s own family’s history and experiences of, and search-outs for, the Supernatural.”
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