Skeleton Coast
Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is intimacy in this kind of exercise, for the act of reading is also a process of marking and being marked by language.
Emergen(ce) of Feeling
Lightning is God / taking pictures of the victims. The present, like your elbow, / bends just one direction.
Sonnet
Listen. The moon could / slice through this dark, this / thick water, that which looks / like dark here
Sanctum
We need only hold ourselves / poised— / as waiting is more than withstanding
An Ecology of Elsewhere
Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the human beings she encounters in their relative precarity, or for the fauna and flora that find means of existence in Namibia’s arid climate.
Ghost / Landcape
The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously adding to the mystery.
Scarecrow
Fernandez poses an intellectual, referential voice that is continually confounding a consistent line of thought.
Divinity School
Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations of our words and choices are what define us.
The Opposite of Light
The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that have been carefully pieced back together using poetry’s inner logic and grammar
A Pillow Book
Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a genre-bending collection containing micro-essays, dream logs, encyclopedia entries, and philosophical musings.