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Trio: Planet Parable by Karen Donovan; Run: A Verse-History of Victoria Woodhull by Diane Raptosh; and Endless Body by Daneen Wardrop (Etruscan Press, paperback)

Publication Date:August24, 2021

Publisher Marketing:Trioexemplifies how women become a clandestine conduit for life, power, and loss, particularly in the shadow of an implacable patriarchy.

Between two covers are three books:Planet Parableby Karen Donovan,Run: A Verse-History of Victoria Woodhullby Diane Raptosh, andEndless Bodyby Daneen Wardrop, all previous Etruscan authors. The poems inPlanet Parablediscover unexpected meaning in the quotidian recorded against the revelatory background hum of the world. Beginning with a woman using a backhoe to dig up a meadow, it ends with a divine purge, arriving at another beginning. The poems in between tangle with the earths own signifierssedimentary, igneous, metamorphicwritten in water, fire, and pressure. Diane Raptoshs collection brings to life one of Americas most controversial suffragists, Victoria Woodhull, giving a voice to her immediate circle. Woodhull was the first woman to address Congress and the first woman to run for United States president, with abolitionist Frederick Douglass as running mate. Daneen WardropsEndless Bodyrealizes a mother-daughter-mother lineage through music, quest, and a growing awareness of the body of the world as it traces a daughters loss of her mother, and the turning from loss to the arrival of that daughters own daughter. The body may never have assented to its own stern conditions, yet has many callings: tensing, speaking vapor, holding anger and, sometimes, letting us go.

Triois the second in a series of trilogies from Etruscan Press, the first of which wasTriptych(2020).