A Violence

<p><b>A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as “beautiful and riveting” (<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>)</b><br><br>A poetic representation of PTSD and its evocative bewilderments, Paula Bohince’s mesmerizing new collection, <i>A Violence</i>, is written at inflection points: a waking from dissociation borne from a harrowing childhood; a breakdown; and a struggle toward wholeness by means of mystified recollection amid ecological disturbances. Praised for poems that “reward enormously upon first encounter, and only more so upon subsequent reads” (<i>The Rumpus</i>), Bohince is here alert to surprise, the enthralling image “rushing through such wreckage a brain becomes.” Contemplating vulnerability and resilience in the entwined human and natural worlds, with a voice precise and powerful, <i>A</i> <i>Violence</i> is a haunting collection that builds symphonically to recover a self “gone away,” where the ordinary is imbued with transcendental significance.</p>