At long last, my poetry collection, Every Glittering Chimera, is here! Published by the wonderful Blue Light Press.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Stephen Dunn calls the book a “fine and brave debut.”
In the book we follow the chimera (a mythical female monster that was part lion, part serpent, part goat) and take a hard look at the seeming negatives and positives of life’s journey. We journey across time and locale, from the mid-century Brooklyn, where “chickens squawk in Grandma’s backyard,” to the contemporary.
Stuart Dischell, the author of the poetry collections Dig Safe and Children with Enemies, says: “With a sharp eye for the resonant details and images of the world, and with a sharp wit and honed voice, Rosalind Brenner’s Every Glittering Chimera is a deeply human and humane book that explores the mystery and riddle of our lives.”
Check it out for yourself and read an excerpt from the book here.
This spring also saw my poem "The Hole" included in the migration anthology From Everywhere A Little. The poem was inspired by my mother’s experience immigrating to the United States.
My microchapbook, this wet, this glistening fruit, is newly published by the Origami Poems Project. Print and fold a copy for yourself here.
I will be reading from Every Glittering Chimera in the East Hampton Poetry Marathon series on Sunday, July 7th at 5:30 pm at Mulford Farm in East Hampton, NY.