Part lamentation, part ode, Threnody (the word originates from the Greek, threnos, “wailing” and oide “ode.”), examines the beauty and violence of our present ecological moment with a lyric and medita
Literary Nonfiction. In EPILOGUE Juliet Patterson performs an act of intimate illumination as she narrates with poetic and visionary clarity the experience of her father's death by suicide and her sub
Of her book, Jean Valentine wrote, "Juliet Patterson's poems are entirely themselves; they use time and the eye and tongue — all the body, as thought and insight, inside and outside history. The Truan
