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OMENA BAY TESTAMENT by Gail Griffin
Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize
Praise for Omena Bay Testament
Gail Griffin finds inspiration from all the corners of life, from the bold headlines to the dark fairytales of childhood. In all of the conversations, lessons, and silences, Griffin finds new questions, moments to celebrate, and a pain that hardens us into something unburnable. These powerful poems hold to the body's latest troubles, the troubles we set down for the last time, and the "bright ferocity of what's left." Rich with revelations of the self and the world, this book offers us a testament of attention as we move into new seasons and new shores. —Traci Brimhall
Gail Griffin’s “Omena Bay Testament” takes us across landscapes of winter and water through the possibility of love and the tragedy of death to a ravishing moment where there is nothing left to want. An accomplished nonfiction writer, Griffin captures the fullness and limitations of being with remarkable depth and tenacity in her debut collection of poetry and prose. I’m cloaked in the invisibility that comes to women at a certain point, she writes, and it is from that place of being off-stage where her narratives—harrowing, nuanced, layered—brilliantly forge a path between past and present, the living and the dead. I can't think of another book that gifts its readers with such a breadth of time and experience. Sweeping and seamless, Griffin shifts between wide and exacting gazes, from poems of quiet interiority to the larger breaking world, especially with her masterful sequence in response to news excerpts. This book is a life; it is a gift of integrity and lasting art. —Jennifer K. Sweeney
