The Other Now

Cullen’s interests in folklore, myth, and popular song are everywhere evident in the poems she has published over the past decade. Collected as A Bone in My Throat and Strange Familiar, her poems are drawn to the narrative turns and dramatic twists of stories that tell us much about ourselves—and on which our first efforts at making sense of the world are often based. The best of those earlier books is
gathered here, together with a generous selection of new poems.