In the Field Between Us
Molly McCully Brown + Susannah Nevison

Written in collaboration, these epistle poems written back and forth between Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison, In the Field Between Us considers disability and the possibility of belonging in the aftermath of lifelong medical intervention.
In the beginning, the poem-letters express, in gorgeous harmony, the psychic and physiological complexities of surviving remedy. As the book unfolds, the writers encounter a natural world which increasingly seems to mirror the traumas they have endured. Out of their tracing of innumerable scars, these poems emit a perseverance, a spirit of communion, and a hopeful resolve that rise out of the poets’ profound connection to one another.

“This is a beautiful, urgent book.”
—Ilya Kaminsky

“Brown and Nevison have composed a remarkable, mortal duet, an exchange of poems so attuned to each other, the voices blend.”
—Rosanna Warren

Molly McCully Brown is the author of Places I’ve Taken My Body and The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. She teaches at Kenyon College.
Susannah Nevison is the author of Lethal Theater and Teratology. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sweet Briar College.
 

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-514-7 / 80 pages / Poetry