The Coffin Makers by Heather Corbally Bryant

$20.99

 

Heather Corbally Bryant’s eleventh collection of poetry shows her deepening grasp of language, and follows her grappling with the exigencies of a global pandemic in both intricate and plainspoken poetry.”
–Laura Munson, bestselling author and founder of Haven Writing Retreats

 

In The Coffin Makers, Heather Corbally Bryant offers us poetic witness to a world turned upside down by catastrophic fear, in clear, beautiful poems, marking out our moments of grief, isolation and hope, step by step. These poems will remain with us as graceful testament to our moment of crisis.

–Eibhear Walshe, Director of Creative Writing, University College Cork

 

 

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The Coffin Makers

by Heather Corbally Bryant

$20.99, Full-length, paper

979-8-88838-139-7

2023

The Coffin Makers is an exploration of our daily lives as the COVID 19 pandemic began to sweep through our lives. The poems throughout this book record, wonder, and struggle with the changes that began first to flutter and then to roar through our existence. In delving into what life was like as so much that we had taken for granted was upturned, these poems reflect the questions we began to have about the way we had always lived our lives. The book charts the trajectory of the immense disruptions and inequities–both personal and global–that began to become clear during this time of unrest, disruption, and dislocation. At its heart lies the question the pandemic laid bare: how do we live our lives?

Heather Corbally Bryant, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has also taught at Harvard, the University of Michigan and the Pennsylvania State University where she has won awards for her teaching. She has written eleven books of poetry, a prize-winning academic book, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War, and a work of creative nonfiction, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, and have won Honorable Mention in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition.

 

 

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