Nightmares & Miracles

Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize\nIn Nightmares & Miracles, Michelle Bitting again proves herself as a poet, her inquiries vital and deep, her concerns darkly personal and conscientiously worldly. Charged with remarkable imagination and formal dexterity, these poems ring with clarity and precision. Michelle deftly navigates the “unglamorous” noir territories of personal and political trauma while embracing the erotic mess of domestic life as “unstoppable fire” where she ultimately concludes “every stroke(‘s) a masterpiece…” She threads myth, loss, and love into intricate braids of bold prose and lyrical turns, holding her readers spellbound. --Dorianne Laux