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What actually happens within the revolution of the clock's hands? In The Writing of an Hour the poet considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread lockdown, Coultas forges connections to the sublime and wonders what it means to be from the Americas. These poems verge on the surreal, transform the quotidian, and respond anew to the marvelous. The Writing of an Hour takes the reader on a journey in four sections; from a bedroom to an improvised desk over the North Sea, where she attempts to create an artwork inside an airplane cabin flying over Greenland's rivers of ice.

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"""These beautifully crafted pieces observe how time unlocks registers of the soul: 'why are we here if not to be makers.' Coultas quilts across mind/land/scapes with corporeal delicacy. To embody an hour as a glossary for perception, is to relish where today's sentence can take us.""--Edwin Torres, author of Quanundrum (i will be your many angled thing) ""In Brenda Coultas's beautifully lived and living poems, time and space transform each other. A mother may be found within the shape of a tree or as an underlying music, and a house can feel like a labyrinth laced with invisible narrative threads. Within the domestic, familial, and global geographies of these poems lies a recognition of the larger writing we live in, beyond the lifework of the human: 'I know the world is a page turner, a paper globe, and I know that the birds are the great writers of the sky.'""--Elizabeth Willis, author of Alive: New and Selected Poems"

These beautifully crafted pieces observe how time unlocks registers of the soul: 'why are we here if not to be makers.' Coultas quilts across mind/land/scapes with corporeal delicacy. To embody an hour as a glossary for perception, is to relish where today's sentence can take us. --Edwin Torres, author of Quanundrum (i will be your many angled thing) In Brenda Coultas's beautifully lived and living poems, time and space transform each other. A mother may be found within the shape of a tree or as an underlying music, and a house can feel like a labyrinth laced with invisible narrative threads. Within the domestic, familial, and global geographies of these poems lies a recognition of the larger writing we live in, beyond the lifework of the human: 'I know the world is a page turner, a paper globe, and I know that the birds are the great writers of the sky.' --Elizabeth Willis, author of Alive: New and Selected Poems

These beautifully crafted pieces observe how time unlocks registers of the soul: 'why are we here if not to be makers.' Coultas quilts across mind/land/scapes with corporeal delicacy. To embody an hour as a glossary for perception, is to relish where today's sentence can take us.--Edwin Torres, author of Quanundrum (i will be your many angled thing) In Brenda Coultas's beautifully lived and living poems, time and space transform each other. A mother may be found within the shape of a tree or as an underlying music, and a house can feel like a labyrinth laced with invisible narrative threads. Within the domestic, familial, and global geographies of these poems lies a recognition of the larger writing we live in, beyond the lifework of the human: 'I know the world is a page turner, a paper globe, and I know that the birds are the great writers of the sky.'--Elizabeth Willis, author of Alive: New and Selected Poems

""These beautifully crafted pieces observe how time unlocks registers of the soul: 'why are we here if not to be makers.' Coultas quilts across mind/land/scapes with corporeal delicacy. To embody an hour as a glossary for perception, is to relish where today's sentence can take us.""--Edwin Torres, author of Quanundrum (i will be your many angled thing) ""In Brenda Coultas's beautifully lived and living poems, time and space transform each other. A mother may be found within the shape of a tree or as an underlying music, and a house can feel like a labyrinth laced with invisible narrative threads. Within the domestic, familial, and global geographies of these poems lies a recognition of the larger writing we live in, beyond the lifework of the human: 'I know the world is a page turner, a paper globe, and I know that the birds are the great writers of the sky.'""--Elizabeth Willis, author of Alive: New and Selected Poems

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BRENDA COULTAS (New York, NY) is a contemporary American poet. She is the author of the collections A Journal of Places, The Tatters, The Marvelous Bones of Time, and A Handmade Museum. She teaches at Touro College.

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