Brenda Coultas Bio: Brenda Coultas is the author of The Marvelous Bones of Time (Coffee House Press, 2007), Early Films, (Rodent Press 1996), and of A Handmade Museum (Coffee House Press, 2003) which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from The Poetry Society of America and a Greenwald grant from the Academy of American Poets. She was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 2005. Her poetry has been published in Brooklyn Rail, Encyclopedia, Conjunctions, and in many other journals. Brenda Coultas lives in the East Village in Manhattan. Her latest book, The Marvelous Bones of Time consists of two manuscripts connected by an exploration of narrative, folklore, found materials and place. This first section, The Abolition Journal is an investigation into borders, namely the north-south border between Daviess County, Kentucky and Spencer County, Indiana, where Abe Lincoln spent his boyhood. The Abolition Journal also explores what remains of past in the local idioms of her county, for example, the sound and lost origins of the names of villages and townships, the trace of 19th century Americana. A Lonely Cemetery, the 2nd section, begins with an exploration of narrative, namely the genre of the ghost story. For this project, Coultas collected narratives of the weird and the haunted from my own experiences, found materials, and interviews. She asked poets and friends to tell her a true ghost tale. After a day or two, she would write the story from memory, so that what is remembered maybe exaggerated or distorted, so that in the manner of a ghost story, the lucid details and the thrills remain.
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