Fimbul-Winter [Paperback]

Fimbul-Winter (or Fimbulvetr) takes its title from Norse mythology: three winters with no summers between. Drawing from sources as diverse as Anglo-Saxon literature, Chinese poetry, Emily Dickinson, and the blues, these poems seek sustenance and consolation in a harsh landscape. Here is a poet who listens, who weighs until all comes remote, comes close, from that place where poetry itself begins: the country of Erstwhile, of Meanwhile, of Still.  Marianne Boruch

An intense second collection of rich narrative and meditative scenes set in a harsh yet intricate inner and exterior landscape.

DEBRA ALLBERY won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Walking Distance. She directs the Warren Wilson MFA Program near Asheville.

ASUNDER Chequamegon Cures and Maxims Cyclone Cellar Chronic Town Fimbul-Winter IMAGINARY The Assignation Constellation Firelands Short Story Imaginary The Borders AFTER After the Auction of My Grandmothers Farm How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare Frame Clear Mirror Lament Office After Vermeer SONG Riddle No Tutor But the North Clinic The Wakeful Bird Sings Darkling All We Need The Womans Lament Casting Off Fault This is a Song Nightingale RIVER Ruach River Bright Absentee Piazza di Spagna, 1821 Lesson Earthbound Carpathian Frontier In the Pines The Eye Demands a Horizon Notes