For Immediate Release
THE GLASS CABIN FILLED WITH POEMS
REMLAP, ALABAMA — GLASS CABIN chronicles the thirteen years the Braziels spent building their home out of secondhand tin, tornado-snapped power poles, and church glass on a ridge in rural Alabama. Through time and sacrifice, the couple built a life with room reserved for writing — with nail and board slotted into place, a poem followed.
The Braziels describe, in verse, the work of measuring cuts for stairs, of hauling water — one ton at a time — up the side of the mountain, of hammering nails, and gathering tin. It reads as a meditation on hope, on frustration, and on people’s places in the wilder parts of the world.
James and Tina Mozelle Braziel are a husband-and-wife writing team. They have received fellowships from Hot Springs National Park and Alabama State Council on the Arts. James’s book, This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt Fiction Award (Livingston), tells the stories of people living on Alabama’s Cumberland Plateau. His novels Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam) are about the survivors of an environmental disaster in the future South. Tina Mozelle Braziel is the author of Known by Salt (Anhinga), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly). Her work has appeared in POETRY and other journals. James and Tina live and write in a glass cabin that they are building by hand on Hydrangea Ridge.