But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise emerges at a time when science is discovering more and more about the mystical particles that make up our universe and our bodies. From tidal forces and prairie burns to ruminations on racial identity while standing at the foot of Mount Rushmore, these poems chart a travelogue through mental and physical landscapes and suggest that place, time, love, and bodies are all shifts in the undulate cosmos. Straddling the lyrical and experimental, these poems conjure and connect the cosmological, the carnal, and the personal in a country and a universe...
But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise emerges at a time when science is discovering more and more about the mystical particles that make up o...
a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture with all the sexualization that comes with race, gender, and landscape. From front to back the book is wound through with a single poem whose language is permuted, translated, and retranslated (from English to English) as it cycles around abortion, both asking what artifact / do I resemble and stating small love / small / you failed it / in person. The poems directly confront the sexual self ( This isn t...
a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love a...
