Description
Book SynopsisPoets have been writing about love for centuries, so it is thrilling when a new voice comes along capable of breathing new life into old structures. In
(At) Wrist, Tacey Atsitty melds inherited forms such as the sonnet with her Dine (Navajo) and religious experiences to boldly and beautifully seek a love that can last for eternity.
Trade ReviewAs formally seductive as it is subversive, Tacey Atsitty’s
(At) Wrist is a poetry of deep longing and praise, of loss and the courage of resilience. Anchored in an intimate vision of connectedness, her syntax works its way beyond thought’s limit, setting its hook in the terrain of memory and dream. This is a book I will return to for what no other poet I know delivers with such daring and vulnerability, a poetry wherein time, body, and the natural world are presented as a singularity otherwise known as love." - James Kimbrell
Table of Contents
- A February Snow
- Sonnet for My Wrist
- Bird Dance
- Round Our Wrists
- Out of Star
- Sang Over
- Chafe
- Apricot Lament
- Hole through the Rock
- Querido Apu
- Lace Sonnet
- Still Life Morrow
- River Silt
- The Night My Wrist Broke
- Last Night, Bleeding
- A Blood Letting
- On Innocence
- When It Was Time
- Scaling the Black
- It’s Hard to Write a Love Poem When
- Candy Dish Sonnet
- Into Rain
- Of Ribbon
- The Warbler
- Night Portrait with Cannon Fire
- Pollenback
- Portrait of a Gray Room
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- Lacing
- Acknowledgments
