I USED TO BE A PISCES
Award-winning, bestselling author Camilla Gibb returns with her first poetry collection, a profound new work that examines our relationships to the earth and one another. I Used to Be a Pisces is a deeply felt meditation on love and belonging, exploring changing landscapes, loves, and selves. In these poems, accompanied by her original collage work, Gibb generously invites us to engage with our surroundings, recognize the relationships that shape our existence, and examine our longing for restoration and regeneration. Grappling with what it means to feel at home in a time of upheaval, and woven through with threads of hope, grief, and the persistent pursuit of renewal, I Used to Be a Pisces is a masterful poetic work from one of the country’s most beloved and celebrated authors.
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Praise for I Used to Be a Pisces
“Camilla Gibb’s debut collection reveals that poetry lies at the core of her celebrated and widely known works of fiction and memoir. Brilliant in form and relevant to us all, I Used to Be a Pisces is a beautiful and outstanding book.” —A.F. Moritz, author of Great Silent Ballad
“I Used to Be a Pisces is a brilliant, subtle, and thoughtful book. Camilla Gibb’s powerful images simultaneously animate gestures, situations, sensations, emotions, danger, and beauty. The narrative tension that emerges creates a collage of beings, animals, objects, nature, and thoughts, with magnificent results.” —Nicole Brossard, author of Distantly