Ember Days

Woolf’s pen runs dry, Tesla holes up, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo, and the witnesses for peace include soldiers under duress, models transformed to artists, descendants of forced immigrants, survivors of hurricanes.

Ember Days begins with ritual and ends with prayer as the poems tunnel through Wednesday’s jammed boulevards, Friday’s worthless cash, Saturday’s prodigal feet.

“Gilliland is a poet of witness and spirituality, grappling with climate devastation while also interrogating world policies and politics.”
— Best American Poetry

“Gilliland waltzes smoothly between the cheeky and conversational and the lyrical.”
— LitHub

“I am spellbound by the largesse of vision and the beauty.”
— Cynthia Hogue

Mary Gilliland is the guest poetry editor in the winter 2022 issue of Persimmon Tree.

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