Lilies from America: New & Selected Poems by Carmen Bugan
PBS Autumn Special Commendation 2019 Knives Forks and Spoons She makes herself vulnerable in

She makes herself vulnerable in the most romantic way

giving us a rich sense not only of their formal aspects but also of the passions underlying their linguistic and structural invention

then taking home a chain and a length of pipe

as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling

Lilies from America: New & Selected Poems by Carmen Bugan <br><b>PBS Autumn Special Commendation 2019</b> Knives Forks and Spoons She makes herself vulnerable in[] a word smithy that is now owned by an incorruptible woman of letters. Her words are in open view and in plain hearing for the eyes and ears of people who value every single tongue but not the forked one. Christopher Ricks, Dead Ground 2018 1918 I can certainly attest [] now, after being in Bugans world of frail syllables, that such an equilibrium between history and art is not only possible, but is often the only way to assuage pain, to release the