FromGood Stock Strange Blood:
And, yet, each morning a fireheart grief in the body coming out of sleep. The listening to the smoke as if fills and weeps inside the chest, choking strength out hands weighted, dangling. We wonder where else it lives before it fills the body up. We assume it comes inside through the hole that promises invasion.
Lundy Martinis author ofA Gathering of Matter / A Matter of GatheringandDISCIPLINE, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award.
Bold, formally innovative prose poems that challenge our ideas of race, voice, bodies, and justice.
Dawn Lundy Martin, an essayist and award-winning poet is author ofA Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering(2007) andDISCIPLINE(Nightboat Books 2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and was a finalist for both Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. Her most recent collection isLife in a Box is a Pretty Life(Nightboat Books 2015). Martin is also a co-founder of the Black Took Collective, an experimental performance art/poetry group of three (with Ronaldo Wilson and Duriel Harris), and a member of HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? global arts collective. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry
“In her latest collection, Martin contemplates the corporeal aspects of black identity, including scars from historical traumas and pain from fresher wounds. . . . In this esoteric and ruminative work, God is shown to be present in the midst of a host of desires and griefs both great and small.” —Publishers Weekly
“Martin uses a whiplash of short, punched-at-us phrases that offer al“+
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