Selected by Rigoberto Gonzales as the winner of the South Carolina
Poetry Book Prize, Excavations: A City Cycle is the first
collection of poetry from Jennifer R. Pournelle. Set in different
cities over fifteen years of peace and war, the collection explores
the hidden similarities of these locations' seemingly different
landscapes and cultures. She begins in Vienna with the destruction
of Saint Michael's Square, then to a reunified Berlin, and from
there to the Spanish influenced San Diego, ending in the midst of
the religious conflicts of Baghdad. Through vivid explorations of
place, Pournelle's narratives bring to the surface defining
historical events from these sites and their host cultures as the
poems reveal how events rooted in these locations ripple outward to
affect the world beyond. A career soldier turned environmental
anthropologist and archeologist, Pournelle is deeply attuned to
visions of loss and destruction as well as the promise of rebirth
and rediscovery. Her poems voice her individual experiences abroad
as she sifts--literally and metaphorically--through layers of
turbulent history and harsh present circumstances in search of some
small promise of future recovery for all that has been lost.
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