RESURRECTION PARTY
by Michalle Gould

Book cover featuring skeletons having a picnic

Silver Birch Press is excited to announce the August 17, 2014 release of Resurrection Party, a 74-page collection of poems by Michalle Gould.

Resurrection Party concerns itself, almost to the point of obsession, with the question of how the imagination grapples with the fear of death. The collection intertwines religious and mythical subjects and themes with more fleshly concerns about the body and decay, presence and absence. It has been described as containing poems of "almost exquisite refinement, illuminated by the taut glow of sensuous prosody and imagery" and as "a deeply meditative collection at once intelligent, tender, and utterly human."

Praise for Michalle Gould:

"Michalle Gould's poems are a study in beautiful paradox — their meticulously crafted structures serve as containers for the wilderness that resides within. Their terrain is somewhere between body and spirit, life and death, intimacy and solitude, elegance and intuition. Possessing a sly humor coupled with a laser sharp awareness and assertion of how all is ephemeral, Resurrection Party accomplishes the rare: it makes even the big questions fresh."
Louise Mathias, author of The Traps and Lark Apprentice

Resurrection Party is now available at Amazon.com.

MICHALLE GOULD

has been working on the poems that constitute Resurrection Party for almost 15 years. In that time, her poems and short stories have appeared in Slate, New England Review, Poetry, American Literary Review, The Texas Observer, and other journals. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a librarian, and is in the process of researching and writing a novel set in the North of England during the 1930s..