University of Wisconsin Press, 2022 • Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize • ISBN 9780299340940
Shopping or The End of Time invents a new poetic genre: the sociolyric. Impersonal and personal at once, these poems shift from collective to individual experience with dizzying rapidity.
— Brian Teare
Her narratives are less built as accumulations than as a cadence of narrative waves, rolling through rise and fall to either a final crescent, or a sweep up to the shore of the space beyond that final word. . . . There is a swell and swoop of her narrative, but also a subtle music across that same lyric that itself fills and diminishes across such a lovely spectrum of her lines.
— rob mclennan
Bludworth de Barrios is a kind of sorcerer-historian, an uncanny conjurer of terrestrial relations. This is a book of fierce attention to what it means to be a person, a parent, a consumer, an heir to other people’s ghosts.
— Robin Myers
A beautiful, profound book without sentimentality or reductionism: a raw truthfulness arrived at through difficult work of the heart.
— Jack Underwood
Selections
B O D Y
The Cincinnati Review
Electric Literature’s The Commuter
Harvard Review
Oxford Poetry
Poetry Daily
The Poetry Review
Sixth Finch