Debut collection of poems that reads like a murder mystery

"Piety within shades of pantheism—that is clearly one way to look at Paula Bohince's Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods. Bohince is, however, more naturalist than romantic, meaning that her poems above all honor their dark side, their realism, their edge. These are country matters here, incidents in the male American tradition of Frost, Sherwood Anderson, and James Wright, a fact of gender that not only distinguishes this poet's pastoral concerns but separates their power."

—Stanley Plumly

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