The Grace of Distance
Louisiana State University Press, 2019
Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize
“...What Thorburn’s poetry does best—engage the world with a serious attention and imagination, call into 'that dark glitter,' and listen for a response."
—Hannah Vanderhart, The Adroit Journal
The Grace of Distance explores the distances we experience in modern life—between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love. The poems seek to name, and find, that elusive, essential sense of connection we hunger for. Set in China and America, in the present and the distant past, the poems also confront the unbridgeable distances we must live with and the perhaps surprising grace they can provide—even as our lives move in the only direction they can, away from the past.
Excerpts and interview
“The Angel and the Lady” in Connotation Press
"Relic" in Image
Interview in The Lit Pub
Order on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Louisiana State University Press, 2019
Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize
“...What Thorburn’s poetry does best—engage the world with a serious attention and imagination, call into 'that dark glitter,' and listen for a response."
—Hannah Vanderhart, The Adroit Journal
The Grace of Distance explores the distances we experience in modern life—between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love. The poems seek to name, and find, that elusive, essential sense of connection we hunger for. Set in China and America, in the present and the distant past, the poems also confront the unbridgeable distances we must live with and the perhaps surprising grace they can provide—even as our lives move in the only direction they can, away from the past.
Excerpts and interview
“The Angel and the Lady” in Connotation Press
"Relic" in Image
Interview in The Lit Pub
Order on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble or Amazon
