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When the Horses

By Mary Helen Callier
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By Mary Helen Callier
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In her award-winning debut, When the Horses, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the American South.

As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater," and it is in this bedraggled theater of memory that Callier stages her poems. A careful, curtained-off darkness lurks at their edges, actors appearing more in silhouette, evoking, often, the...

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PoetryAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAmerican poetry->Women authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->21st century