Even Shorn

The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature, Even Shorn takes its title from the Song of Solomon and that book's equation of pastoral feminine beauty with the plenty of harvest. Isabel Duarte-Gray argues that material bounty no longer exists in the rural spaces where she was raised. They live instead in poverty and unspeakable violence. Duarte-Gray's poetry mines local orature, family history, and folklore for the music of Western Kentucky, creating the sparse line breaks and the ha...