Publication Date: April 1, 2026
Paperback, 36 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-17-8
Sun go down and moon rise up
Time the eater be always near
If the past is another country, who lives there? The poems of St. Fursey’s Abbey hopscotch back and forth in time to invoke an imagined place where myth and magic jostle against human hopes and uncertainties. Inhabitants of a multilayered past—a cunning woman, an inanimate box of relics, the woodwose, a doubting priest—reveal themselves through their voices in poems that play with language and form, while our present moment, like a ghostly visitor, haunts the margins.
About the Author
Ann Lauinger’s previous books of poetry include Dime Saint, Nickel Devil (Broadstone Books, 2022), Against Butterflies (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2013), and Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in publications such as the Cumberland River Review, the Georgia Review, Parnassus, Plant-Human Quarterly, the Southern Poetry Review, and SWWIM. Featured in anthologies, including The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, she is a winner of Smartish Pace’s Erskine J. Poetry Prize and the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry from University of Utah. Professor emerita of literature at Sarah Lawrence College and a member of the Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee, she lives in Ossining, New York.
Publication Date: April 1, 2026
Paperback, 36 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-17-8
Sun go down and moon rise up
Time the eater be always near
If the past is another country, who lives there? The poems of St. Fursey’s Abbey hopscotch back and forth in time to invoke an imagined place where myth and magic jostle against human hopes and uncertainties. Inhabitants of a multilayered past—a cunning woman, an inanimate box of relics, the woodwose, a doubting priest—reveal themselves through their voices in poems that play with language and form, while our present moment, like a ghostly visitor, haunts the margins.
About the Author
Ann Lauinger’s previous books of poetry include Dime Saint, Nickel Devil (Broadstone Books, 2022), Against Butterflies (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2013), and Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in publications such as the Cumberland River Review, the Georgia Review, Parnassus, Plant-Human Quarterly, the Southern Poetry Review, and SWWIM. Featured in anthologies, including The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, she is a winner of Smartish Pace’s Erskine J. Poetry Prize and the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry from University of Utah. Professor emerita of literature at Sarah Lawrence College and a member of the Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee, she lives in Ossining, New York.
