Irene Mathieu

Orogeny Irene Mathieu

Poetry. Winner of the of the 2016 Bob Kaufman Book Prize. OROGENY buries deep into rock and soil, silence and speech, into the pulse of what connects us as mothers, sisters, lovers, and ghosts--the quest for home and for a language that can account for both what might become and what has been lost. Searching ecologies, history, and embodied experience, Irène Mathieu's lyric voice pieces together a world, which is at once our own and a map of possibility, a 'fetal dream of ourselves, a sea of curled and floating ideas.' --Megan Kaminski