Leila Chatti

Wildness Before Something Sublime (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In dreams and memories, night poems and a centos, Wildness Before Something Sublime emerges at the edge of language to excavate the bodyits desires and griefs.

Leila Chatti's Wildness Before Something Sublime confronts a world defined by dualitieslove and loss, wonder and despair, the gift of sunflowers / by the roadside and the pain of losing a pregnancy. Night Poems, written on the brink of sleep, travel the dream world and the subconscious mind to unearth the unfiltered self, to understand identity, desire, and the body. Other poems become acts of divination, calling on God and the Muse, calling on the voices of beloved women poetsLucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, C.D. Wrightto comb through the dark. Chatti expertly grapples with the pain of what a body should but cannot do. Under the shifting weight of this grief, poems fragment, become ruptures of language, experimentations, refractions, a kaleidoscope of recurring sound and image. Snow, light, milk, clouds, silence. Behind every positive image, the shadow of its opposite, an echo of emotion. As Chatti bridges the gap between dream and language, the external and internal, a new world emergesa world in which darkness is reclaimed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619323162
• Artikelnr.: 75052503

Autorenporträt

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize, the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and four chapbooks. Her honors include multiple Pushcart Prizes and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Provost Fellow at the University of Cincinnati and teaches in Pacific University's M.F.A. program.