Description:
Bell I Wake To takes a magnifying glass to all living things and gives them a greater meaning and purpose, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant. Crane's vivid and precise language paints beautiful, and sometimes bittersweet, familial scenes while contending with heavy topics like death, loss, grief, and healing.
Brief description:
Patty Crane is the author of BELL I WAKE TO (Zone 3 Press First Book Award, 2019) and something flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2018), and translator of THE BLUE HOUSE: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) and BRIGHT SCYTHE (Sarabande Books, 2015), her selected translations of the Swedish Nobel laureate. Her poetry has appeared widely in journals, most recently in Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry East, and Vox. Her translations have recently appeared in American Poets, Poetry, Five Points, and Guernica. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell and Hedgebrook. A third generation Cape Cod native, she divides her time between the hilltowns of western Massachusetts and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.