“Ambitious, sophisticated, and intimately lived in” —JOSH ROARK, editor of Frontier Poetry
“These poems mix landscape, desire, and solitude like an Andrew Wyeth painting. Nowhere Beulah is filled with the sensuous pleasures of the land, with the grit and grace of rural life. Reading this book is an experience of following a woman as she cultivates an intimate relationship with the land, and the history of those who have lived and worked there. These poems are awake to the world, and ultimately uncover what it means to be rooted. ” —ANSEL ELKINS, author of Blue Yodel
“With a documentarian’s eye for getting things accurate and the poet’s imaginative sense of transformation, Nowhere Beulah introduces a writer of landscape and lore. In these musically and structurally inventive poems, Nicole Stockburger presents us with the significance of place—a now organic farm in North Carolina where generations strived to make a go of the land and the consequences of their existence upon it. These poems are narrative, dramatic, and lyrical and interweave the past and present—history and love. What an exciting and fine debut collection!” —STUART DISCHELL, author of Good Hope Road
“To call Nowhere Beulah a coming-of-age collection would be reductive, although on one level it is a chronicle of becoming. Choosing to build a home with her partner on his family’s land inspires Stockburger to reclaim her own family’s history and to consider what she’s willing to sacrifice for love” —C.L. WHITE, author of Gold Hill Family Audio