Blueprint and Ruin

By Bethany Schultz Hurst

Winner of the 2021 Michael Waters Poetry Prize

Grappling with both motherhood and the death of a mother, Blueprint and Ruin explores the juxtaposition of prosperity and loss. Filled with cultural specters manifested in structural ruin--houses built on snake dens, malls with foundations in old landfills, a picture-perfect town designed to be eradicated in nuclear testing--the poems mine what's buried beneath the fa ade of the American West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930508522
• ISBN13: 9781930508521
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Southern Indiana Review Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"