A fledgling friendship emerges between Brooke and Mitzi, and even though Brooke returns to her fiance, she recognizes Mitzi as an ally in a situation where she has no others. Here, we get our first glimpse into Mitzi's past, where her Mama was regularly abused by her alcoholic Papa, forcing her Mama to eventually flee, two children in tow, to escape his violent clutches. Mitzi volunteers at the hospital Brooke has been admitted to, and immediately recognizes the signs of a battered woman, despite Brooke's denial.
Book of Days extends the formal and thematic concerns of the first book, travelling a new set of paths but with the same restless curiosity and celebratory wonder.Mitzi Steiner meets Brooke Woodson the day Brooke's golden-boy fiance loses his temper and puts her in the hospital. Eliot Prize and won the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection. Phoebe Power's debut collection, Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the 2018 T.
What pilgrims seek on setting out and what they discover as they go prove to be complementary. Book of Days can be read as a travel memoir, a meditation on community and solitude, on friendship and sisterhood, and on spirituality. The possibilities and contradictions of a twenty-first-century pilgrimage are revealed: inevitably informed by tourism and technology, yet offering new kinds of fellowship and connection in an age of individualism and rootlessness. Animated by song and conversation, the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way, combining a multi-voiced soundscape with vivid verbal sketches of landscape and architecture. Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain.
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