Richeldis of Walsingham by Sally Thomas

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This chapbook consists of a poem cycle rooted in the East Anglian village of Walsingham, in Norfolk; in the visionary experience that made it a medieval pilgrimage site; and in the voices of imagined characters at different moments in its ensuing history.

 
Richeldis of Walsingham by Sally Thomas is a collection which pays homage to the Middle Ages pilgrimage site called “England’s Nazareth” which was destroyed in 1538: “A lost doorway holds a slanted shadow / That looks on a demolished island, fallow / Still in a rare whitewash of moonlight. / Could it live there, with no sun to cast it?” Astonishing language echoes all through this insightful collection.
–Leah Huete de Maines, former Poet-in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University, and author of Beyond the River and Looking to the East With Western Eyes
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Richeldis of Walsingham

by Sally Thomas

$14.99, paper

Sally Thomas‘s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, First Things, Sonora Review, Southern Poetry Review, Dappled Things, The Lost Country, Windhover, and numerous other journals. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction and the J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry: Brief Light: Sonnets and Other Small Poems ( Lancelot Books, 2012), and Fallen Water (Finishing Line Press, 2015). After sojourns in Utah and Great Britain (the setting for the poems in this collection), she makes her home in the Western Piedmont of North Carolina.

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