A Tune Both Familiar and Strange

These poems take us to places as far flung as Tasmania or Afghanistan, Israel or Iceland, letting us see across time and space into the lives of others, but also into the love and loss of Del Bourgo's own life. The strange becomes familiar as she braids her narratives with images so precise they seem cinematic. Whether elegies, love poems, or lyrics of wild imagining, these poems are marked by tenderness and compassion, even when the difficult or brutal is acknowledged.

Rafaella Del Bourgo's writing has been widely published in the United States, England, Canada, and Australia, and won many awards including: the Alan Ginsberg Poetry Award, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the New Millennium Prize, the Mudfish Poetry Prize, and the Terry J. Cox Poetry Award. Her chapbook, "Inexplicable Business: Poems Domestic and Wild" was published by Finishing Line Press.