In the Volcano's Mouth

by Miriam Bird Greenberg

Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Miriam Bird Greenberg's stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth ("I'd spent my childhood / in a house made of bees; on hot days honey // dripped through cracks in the ceiling," she writes). Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg's experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964333
• ISBN13: 9780822964339
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"