Swan Electric
Poems
"Bernard has written a gorgeous, tough, haunting book."—Frank Bidart
April Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit in broadly explorative poems—from a memoir sequence about the East Village in the 1980s, to "disheveled" sonnets of self-interrogation, to darkly comic hallucinations. Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit.
"A poet of obvious gifts and power and ambition, unsparing and brilliant."—W. S. Merwin
"A marvelous poet."—New York Times Book Review
April Bernard teaches at Bennington College. She is a recipient of the Walt Whitman Prize.
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