Deus Ex Machina: A Melodrama
Pilch, Jennifer
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest. "Jennifer Pilch's DEUS EX MACHINA pulls the ache from a fractured century, stitching the bloom past artifice into an urgent, prismatic form unlike any we have seen. Each voice 'risks/transforms night' into 'a blossom that punctures that blots.' A book like this, assembled from music and ruin and light, is rare and necessary."--Joshua Poteat "In DEUS EX MACHINA, Jennifer Pilch cras...