• Nicole Santalucia Schools of Public Engagement '08

    Lesbians emerge from the grave that America has been digging since its inception in these timely poems of resistance, which celebrate marriage, sobriety, and survival.

    Nicole Santalucia's collection The Book of Dirt is an unsettling journey through a small-town American landscape permeated by gun violence, homophobia, misogyny, and addiction, a setting in which "there are no corners to turn." The terrain is littered with "broken hands and broken heads" and "soldiers brushing their hair with bones," but somehow Santalucia's tough, queer, often grimly humorous voice generates hope that she might find or invent "a silent place to love," a place where strength derives not from violence but from poetry.

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