Publish Date |
April 13, 2024 |
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Price |
$19.95 |
ISBN: 9780889714526
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Published: April 13, 2024
Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a gorgeously spare collection of anticolonial incisor poems. It bit me open with its consideration of axe-father chopping kindling-offspring, Edward Curtis’s photographic dysgraphia, grief and recovery, tender identification with the heels of WWE, prairie haunted/harmed by resource extraction, and a profound love of plant, human, and animal kin.There’s a certain afternoon light that can turn an untouched glass of water or bare alder branches or a cousin’s shrug into memory and hereafter at once. That’s what reading Dallas Hunt’s Teeth feels like. It is delicate, expansive, and combustible. Under Hunt’s exquisite gaze, colonial systems are pulled apart and discarded. The land and our bodies take a beating, fracture and heal, and laugh when it’s most needed. If love is going to conquer all, it will do so through these poems.