NEWS, May 2009: Interpretive Work won the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. New recordings of poems as well as a bit of discussion at From the Fishouse

Interpretive Work

When and where to get it? Order now at Red Hen or at Amazon ... or just ask at your local, independent bookstore. If they don't have it, they can order it!

(Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008): Interpretive Work explores the collision of natural history, work, queerness, and family, reaching toward a moment where one finds "this unsettlement, / this beauty applauded at last."

From the first, we know we're in strange hands... Bradfield is such a deft naturalist, with a keen eye for the queer details of the "ass-bastard gorgeous" varieties of nature, human and non-human. Bradfield's poems delight in the tricks of language and nature.
        —from the San Francisco Chronicle

An important new voice... she brings her scientist's accuracy and artist's lyricism to poems on our lives, our loves, our work.
        —from The Women's Review of Books

New reviews of Interpretive Work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Octopus, and Diagram.

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