Nets to Catch the Wind

Beauty has the wild wings of a gull—and love her too much, Elinor Wylie warns, and she may die.

In this collection, early-20th-century life meets a world alive with wind, weather, and uncanny signs. Wylie’s speakers look for a way to keep their souls apart from the crowd, follow a silver horn into the night, or make sense of a crooked stick that might become a bow—or a cross. Their voices move from playful Highland courtship to solitude, desire, and unease, finding sharp edges beneath beauty’s allure. Even a church bell seems to have something urgent to say. But can anything so wild be held without being lost?

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