Nightmares & Miracles (Winner of the Wilder Prize) *price includes shipping*
by Michelle Bitting
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Praise for Nightmares & Miracles:
In Nightmares & Miracles, Michelle Bitting again proves herself as a poet, her inquiries vital and deep, her concerns darkly personal and conscientiously worldly. Charged with remarkable imagination and formal dexterity, these poems ring with clarity and precision. Michelle deftly navigates the “unglamorous” noir territories of personal and political trauma while embracing the erotic mess of domestic life as “unstoppable fire” where she ultimately concludes “every stroke(‘s) a masterpiece…” She threads myth, loss, and love into intricate braids of bold prose and lyrical turns, holding her readers spellbound. --Dorianne Laux, Finalist, 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Only As the Day is Long—New and Selected
In her latest collection, Michelle Bitting reminds us that from nightmares sometimes come miracles and from miracles a nightmare might lift its shadowy head. Here the Gods are as human as we are, and we, in turn, can sometimes be full of grace. Bitting is a citizen poet but with a seer’s eye. This new, dynamic, book of poems is more than a talisman we should carry with us—it's a guide that will lead us through the varied worlds we live in. --Matthew Dickman, Husbandry (forthcoming from W.W. Norton, 2022)
Michelle Bitting’s newest collection deftly suspends the reader on a knife’s edge of everydayness: nightmares on one side, miracles on the other. And even after you come through, Bitting’s haunting questions remain: “at what point am I anyone?”…”can’t you love yourselves?” leading the reader to wonder if and how they will answer.--Lynne Thompson, Los Angeles Poet Laureate, 2021-2022
