Brawl Jag Poems Author:April Bernard ?April Bernard?s voice is a voice of one crying in the wilderness?striped with modern despair, loving, and knowing.??John AshberyIn Brawl & Jag, her most personal and accessible collection to date, with poems that are by turns playful, sorrowful, and sharp-edged, April Bernard explores subjects ranging from childhood anger to adult grief, from a... more » museum of skulls to the Western movie genre to ?the experiment / some amateurs mixed / of white fizzing democracy / with smoky purple capitalism.? Also included are poems that channel the voices of the sixteenth-century queen ?Bloody Mary,? a girl living in tsarist Siberia, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and a comically odd (and invented) twentieth-century Italian poet.From ?Anger?:I always lie when I always say