Product Description: "[Shattered Sonnets] breathes life into American verse . . . [an] urgent and unrepentant collection."—Rick Moody, Poetry"This convulsive book [Shattered Sonnets]—at times funny, at times sick at heart—refracts and defends a wondrous light...read more

The critically acclaimed author of And Her Soul Out of Nothing presents her second collection of poetry that draws on everything from nursery rhymes to the classics to reveal the poetry hidden within ordinary speech and to share keen observations of the world around.

Product Description: New work from America's wildest poet of the self. These are confessional poems which refuse to confess, which use language as both screen and blade as they continually ask: Who is this "I"? Can the "I" write itself to truth? Join her as she tries to find out.

This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. (view table of contents)