Nadine Sabra Meyer
Nadine Meyer’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares and elsewhere and have won the New Letters Prize for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Her first collection of poems, The Anatomy Lesson (HarperCollins, 2006), won the National Poetry Series. She is an assistant professor at Gettysburg College.
Reading List
The Legible Body: or Melancholia
It is 1842 and Napoleon has returned to Paris as body-ash grey as the iron Seine, Fuseli and Lavater have worked all winter painting the soul’s character to flesh, each high forehead a cathedral vaulted for the mind, and in …