Blade by Blade

Blade by BladeCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781556597039 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2025 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Description: Blade by Bladeis an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness. Danusha Lameris's third book,Blade by Blade is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in "the heart's

Blade by Bladeis an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness.

Danusha Lameris's third book,Blade by Blade is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in "the heart's farthest chambers." Seeking a way back to joy following the deaths of her son and brother, the poet finds wonder in the furred legs of a caterpillar, in egrets, elephants, and elk, solace in the seagull's speckled egg. Here we taste a longing to kiss in the dark corner of the gym, to leap into a volcano's molten fire, to be unraveled, undone thread by thread, made one with all things. Microscopic and tidal, earthquake and fire-prone, Blade by Blade thrives in the underbrush of human emotion. These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we've forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again.