The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems - Softcover

Brown, Molly McCully

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Synopsis

A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017

Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.  

Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the emergence of a poet of exceptional poise and compassion, who grew up in the shadow of the Colony itself.

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About the Author

Molly McCully Brown is the author of The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Crazyhorse, The New York Times and elsewhere. A collection of essays, and a collaborative collection of poems titled In The Field Between Us co-authored with Susannah Nevison are both forthcoming from Persea Books in 2020.

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