Lifting Child From the Ground, Turning Around

“Virginia Bell’s Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around is a complex look at childhood (our own and those of our children), parenting, old age, our beloved dead, and how we inhabit the faces of everyone who has come before us. Bell captures in poetry the movement of film—slow-motion plates, fast forwards, zoom shots, expansive pans, and flashbacks. She draws on such “tricks” to enhance memory or question it entirely. This poet excels at the ekphrasis mode. Her inventive gestures (such as her series of “Invention of…” poems) and her engagement with other arts adds yet another “turn” to this wildly beautiful collection.”

-Denise Duhamel, author of Blowout

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