Provenance
We meet a Mayan cowboy, Archimedes, a diamond smuggler and a nightclubbing saint in this collection of poems bound together by the themes of place and origin. In Provenance, Brandel France de Bravo explores not only her own roots, but the roots of words. Taking her cue from Ralph Walso Emerson who said, “Every word was once a poem,” she has written 26 poems–one for every letter–inspired by etymologies. By braiding autobiography with the biographies of “Apricot,” and “Zygote” and everything inbetween, the poet tells a story that transports us to places both familiar and far-away.
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Brandel France De Bravo
Brandel France de Bravo’s third collection of poems, Locomotive Cathedral, was published in March 2025 by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Best American Poetry, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Conduit, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere