About the BookAmidst cycles of heartbreak, trauma, and chronic pain,Love Prodigalfinds strength in the natural world, motherhood, desire, and new love.
Fiercely self-aware and  utterly present tense,  Traci Brimhall's Love Prodigal lives in the messiness of starting over. As Brimhall grieves a divorce and a new diagnosis, cycles of loss, heartbreak, family trauma, and chronic illness appear. There is an urge to detach, to go numb. Yet, pain is always returned as a gift--the beautiful vulnerability of feeling. In conversation with Da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Bachelard, images of the phoenix appear throughout the collection; its metaphor promises an easy and endless cycle of rebirth--a forever life, forever alone. Brimhall rejects this idea, instead reaching for the slow, messy, and imperfect process of healing. When the body becomes a site the poet  cannot live in or leave,  she finds strength in the beauty of the natural world, in motherhood, in desire, in new love, in  a thousand small pleasures that made her> want to live.  Told through various forms--aubades, a prose crown of sonnets, an admissions essay--Love Prodigal says yes to second (and third and fourth) chances. The heart gets bigger every time it heals. About the AuthorTraci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing and narrative medicine at Kansas State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Orion, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Parks Service, the Academy of American Poets, and Purdue Library’s Special Collections to study the lost poem drafts of Amelia Earhart. She’s the current poet laureate for the State of Kansas.

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