Description: Enter something flown to witness the poetics of transformation, how bird becomes X, daughter--a world, where "the invisible rides on the back of the visible." Suspend what you know about origins.Lean into what can or cannot be captured while you fall for Patty Crane's exquisite debut lyric of profound & controlled grace.--Natasha Kochicheril Moni
Brief description: Patty Crane's poems have appeared widely, including in Bellevue Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review and West Branch. Her translations of Swedish poet and Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer have appeared in Blackbird, PEN Poetry Series, and New York Times Magazine, among others, and are collected in her bi-lingual volume, Bright Scythe (Sarabande Books, 2015). Her awards include a MacDowell fellowship, Stanford Calderwood fellow, Atlanta Review International Prize, Two Rivers Review Poetry Prize, and two Pushcart nominations. She lives in a small hilltown in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.