Auguries & Divinations: Poems

Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.

Auguries & Divinations tracks a young woman’s coming—of—age, attuned to the unspoken rules (and liabilities) of women’s lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman, Lucie, becomes the narrator’s Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to New England seasoned and ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on her study of the love lyric—from Catullus to Frank Bidart—and the classical practice of augu...