Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak
Elizabeth Knapp’s poetry explores the intersections between modern society, personal mortality, and cultural immortality. In this, her second collection, celebrities come and go, while the collection’s patron saint, Emily Dickinson, presides over all. At its heart, this book is about loss and its endless reverberations, while at the same time, it embraces the notion of art as a kind of immortality. With these striking new poems, Knapp establishes herself as one of our most vital and compelling contemporary voices.
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Elizabeth Knapp
Dorian Elizabeth Knapp is the author of three poetry collections: Causa Sui (forthcoming 2025), winner of the 8th Annual Three Mile Harbor Book Award; Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, winner of the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize; and The Spite House, winner of the 2010 De Novo Poetry Prize. She is the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA at Hood College and lives in Frederick, Maryland with her family.