Poetry by Dawn Lundy Martin
August 1, 2017 6 x 9 144 Pages 978-1-56689-471-5
Bold, formally innovative prose poems that challenge our ideas of race, voice, bodies, and justice.
From Good 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.
About the Author
Dawn Lundy Martin is the author ofA Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering(University of Georgia Press, 2007),Discipline(Nightboat Books, 2011), andLife in a Box is a Pretty Life(Nightboat Books, 2015). Martin is also a cofounder of the Black Took Collective and a member of the HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? global arts collective. She is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.