Palace of Reptiles

Poetry. PALACE OF REPTILES is a dance and a ritual conducted in language, a plumbing and sounding-out of buried histories and vocabularies. Ranging from the brief and beautiful "Ellen's Lament" to the central long poem "Doubtless," the eight poems of this book touch on multiple genres (elegy, celebration, performance art, poetics talk) in order to transform them. Maggie O'Sullivan's other books include RED SHIFTS, also available from SPD.