Among the Untamed

“all those lost and lonely times we knew and feared, places we trusted Billy to shout out so we wouldn’t have to.”

By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark. In tough, tender lyrical language filled with imagery and magic, the protagonist explores sexual politics, feminism, gender identity, and how we make meaning of life.

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Among the Untamed

“all those lost and lonely times we knew and feared, places we trusted Billy to shout out so we wouldn’t have to.”

By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark. In tough, tender lyrical language filled with imagery and magic, the protagonist explores sexual politics, feminism, gender identity, and how we make meaning of life.

BUY THE BOOK

Frontenac House
McNally Robinson Booksellers

Read an Excerpt

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Among the Untamed

“all those lost and lonely times we knew and feared, places we trusted Billy to shout out so we wouldn’t have to.”

BUY THE BOOK

Among the Untamed

“all those lost and lonely times we knew and feared, places we trusted Billy to shout out so we wouldn’t have to.”

BUY THE BOOK

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