<b>Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize</b>
Miriam Bird Greenberg's stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth ("I'd spent my childhood / in a house made of bees; on hot days honey // dripped through cracks in the ceiling, " she writes). Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg's experiences hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across North America, or draw from her informal interviews with contemporary nomads, hobos, and others living on society's edges. Beneath their surface runs a current of violence, whether at the hands of fate or men: she writes "Everyone knows // what happens to women // who hitchhike, constantly // trying a door to the other world made of lake / bottom or low forest, abandoned house // even wild animals / have rejected." The result is a queering of <i>On the Road</i>, a feminist Frank Stanford at once vulnerable and canny. Richly textured, <i>In the Volcano's Mouth</i> is an extraordinary portrait of life on the enchanted margins.
About the author
<b>Miriam Bird Greenberg</b> teaches creative writing and English as a second language. She is the author of two chapbooks, <i>All Night in the New Country</i> and <i>Pact-Blood, Fevergrass.</i> Greenberg has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in <i>Poetry, </i> the <i>Missouri Review, </i> and in the anthologies <i>Best New Poets 2014</i> and <i>The Queer South</i>. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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