In The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Eil an N Chuillean in radically redesigns the language and form of poetic narrative. In poems about journeys to worlds real and metaphorical, she reveals deft crossings of borders, linguistic boundaries, and cultures, from the sepulchre of Lazarus to the web of a spider "who makes her own new centre every day." Beginning mid-journey, the poems often arrive at mysterious destinations. Throughout the volume, N...
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