We Fell Into Weather (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780999491263)

Poetry. At heart conceptual and formally experimental, Alexandra Mattraw's WE FELL INTO WEATHER creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity--environmental, historical, domestic--with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with musicality and internal rhyme, 'the way hay rips scars into wrists the way granite / fields bloom back bruises, ' while offering glimpses into the stuff of everyday life--the toddler's cough, the broken lamp taped back together. In Mattraw's spare and elegant lines, an image will crystallize briefly as a family drives away from California wildfires, but then disperse like vapor, like 'ash...Rend s] the visibility of air.' Attuned to the sublime in nature and in language, this is a poet who invites our close and sustained attention, who invites us to improve ourselves.--Mary-Kim Arnol

Author: Alexandra Mattraw
ISBN-10: 0999491261
ISBN-13: 9780999491263
Publisher: Cultural Society
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 51
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.50d