The Lamb with the Talking Scroll

by Courtney Bush

What began as a simple fascination with a single image from one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus spiraled into a personal quest to find a real grail via dreams, frogs, physics, gauntlet feelings, and a haunted Fisher Price farm animal sounds wheel. In her fourth full-length collection, poet and filmmaker Courtney Bush puts forth a poetic tour de force in her unrelenting search for the divine in the quotidian.

“Fate is real or it just wouldn’t exist.”

Genres: Poetry

78 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2025

Reviews

[Claire Gunner]

The scroll has to be small to fit in the lamb's mouth.

"The lamb is like that, I told him / She pops up in the game to give you information / And it makes sense to want to kill the messenger / Which is why we have to remind each other not to"

[Benjamin Niespodziany]

A brilliant collection. My first time reading Courtney Bush. No notes.

"The horse of disaster rode inside a blank sky terribly / My mouth would be poems / My money would now be rigorous thought / But never pastoral / Never just sounds"

[Christine]

maximalist poetic literary genius