Description:
In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-time Appalachian tunes and Piedmont blues she was raised to love. With formal dexterity--in ballads and sonnets, Sapphics and amphibrachs--the poems in Ornament traverse the permeable boundary between the body and the natural world.
Review Quotes: "In her debut collection, Ornament, winner of the 2017 Vassar Miller Prize, Bell explores the interface between poetry and traditional music."--Poetry International