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Book Synopsis“It is as if the poet set fire to her earlier work and wrote these poems in the light of those flames.”—Mark Wunderlich
Trade Review"It is as if the poet set fire to all her earlier work and wrote these new ones in the light of those flames." -- Mark Wunderlich
"April Bernard brings as deep, as concentrated and imaginative, an attention as it is possible to bring to reality, history, the self, and to their triple intersection in our living language. This is a miraculously balanced, refreshing, and startling book." -- Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"Each poem in
Brawl & Jag tells a little—or not so little—story that needed telling. About violence, essentially, as the title suggests, and its opposite… Bernard’s gracious ‘Let me taste it first for you’ might make you think of Siegfried Sassoon, or of William Blake." -- Elizabeth Macklin
"April Bernard has the best ear in the business. She harmonizes the raucous and the classic, the songful and the wry, the courtly and the quick. These new poems are the most powerful, intimate, lucid, and indelible she’s ever written." -- Wayne Koestenbaum
