Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen Paperback Book 9781636282084

In her mesmerizing sixth poetry collection Blood Wolf Moon Elise Paschen weaves constellations throughout of stars and birds and light and darkness and beauty and horror and nature and humans and history making shape and meaning of whatamprsquos around us and even who we are In this riveting sixth poetry collectionampnbspPaschen explores the story lines of her Osage heritage The core of the book grapples with a dark period of American history ampldquoThe Reign of Terroramprdquo when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights Paschen searches her cultural past and family history in poems about the land ancestors childhood loss nature transformation flight and language In this cinematic book she builds drama in overlapping narratives reinventing ways to approach the line on the page Described by poet Timothy Donnelly as ampldquoone of todayamprsquos most formally astute poetsamprdquo Paschen opens Blood Wolf Moon with the long poem ampldquoHeritageamprdquo a bracelet of crown poems then shifts registers to formal poems and prose sequences Poet and editor Ester Belin calls the concluding poems with their use of Osage language ampldquosignificant...