Where the Dead Are: Emerging Voices

Praisner’s poems speak to anyone who has experienced love, loss, and survival. The poet moves through time and space to offer glimpses into her life and the lives of others—lives both extraordinary and ordinary. She shows the magic and dignity of everyday life—putting the domestic facts of life, like making egg salad or digging for cockles, into the poetry of mourning. She reveals a reality in which life and death coexist, shows how our lives are linked, once to the other, how the dead once relegated to the “dark corners” of childhood, are in fact still with us.