Bernard has written a gorgeous, tough, haunting book."—Frank BidartApril Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit in broadly explorative poems—from a memoir sequence about the East Village in the 1980s, to "disheveled" sonnets of self-interrogation, to darkly comic hallucinations. | Swan Electric Poems by April Bernard, Paperback | Indigo Chapters