Paddock

Poetry collection. Mary Lou Buschi's stunning full-length collection Paddock gives articulation to the hot core of griefand trauma by stripping away the noise of contemporary life. Voiced instead in a timeless languageredolent of myth, Buschi reintroduces us to the power of classical theatrical conventions like chorus,repetition, and invocation, only in Paddock's case, the speakers are girls and women whose lives-inBuschi's crystalline diction-are given epic dimensions.