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Incarnadine

by Mary Szybist

National Book Award for Poetry · Winner NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Formally varied poems revisit the Annunciation while considering faith, womanhood, motherhood, and contemporary life.

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It makes inherited religious imagery intimate, skeptical, and newly strange.

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You enjoy inventive poems about belief and embodiment.

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