Nystrom, Debra / Torn Sky

Debra Nystrom is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

"Debra Nystrom's genius in "Torn Sky is to give us a version of the American West that includes the mythic and the epic, but doesn't exclude the historical and the personal. Intimate, searching, deeply skeptical, these poems are as beautifully written as they are morally challenging and unexpected."-Tom Sleigh

"Torn Sky is haunted by the windy presence of the prairie: light-swept, fierce with bitter histories, an openness both bracing and aching. This is a book of deep conviction, alive with character and incident, richly peopled."-Mark Doty

November 2003

9781889330907

Paperback

Nystrom, Debra / Torn Sky