A Violence Poems - Paula Bohince

A Reckoning With Psychological And Ecological Crises From A Poet Whose Work Has Been Praised As Beautiful And Rivetingrdquo; ( Los Angeles Review Of Books ) A Poetic Representation Of Ptsd And Its Evocative Bewilderments, Paula Bohincersquo;s Mesmerizing Collection, A Violence, Is Written At Inflection Points: A Waking From Dissociation Borne From A Harrowing Childhood; A Breakdown; And A Struggle Toward Wholeness By Means Of Mystified Recollection Amid Ecological Disturbances. Praised For Poems That Reward Enormously Upon First Encounter, And Only More So Upon Subsequent Readsrdquo; ( The Rumpus ), Bohince Is Here Alert To Surprise, The Enthralling Image Rushing Through Such Wreckage A Brain Becomes. Contemplating Vulnerability And Resilience In The Entwined Human And Natural Worlds, With A Voice Precise And Powerful, A Violence Is A Haunting Collection That Builds Symphonically To Recover A Self Gone Away, Where The Ordinary Is Imbued With Transcendental Significance.