Water Castle by Natalie Solmer Paperback Book

Description: Water Castle by Natalie Solmer Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description The poems of Natalie Solmers Water Castle both seek and resist homeland, from ancestral Eastern Europe, to immigrant grandparents in Americas Rust Belt, to her partners, and therefore her childrens, Caribbean origins. Our speaker is raised among the empty factories of a city on the wane, mint fields, ethanol plants, a winding river, "holy with bacteria" and tainted by White history, and a Great Lake. Fluidity is everywhere-river, lake, ocean, ghosts, rain, milk, blood-a fluidity of memory wending into "the not-past-past," and a multiplicity of selves. What holds firm is the Water Castle of the imagination, of language, and of love. Solmer, "without kingdom," paints for us a watery queendom. Her debut collection offers us a deeply honest, lyric pushback against erasure.-Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets and Modern PoetryWater Castle is first and foremost a love story: to self, significant other, and family. Yet, Water Castle is much more-a lyrical, meditative search for the origins of self. Traveling from the Midwest to her partners home of Montego Bay, the speaker shares pearls of truth like when she refuses to close her sons gap teeth because of "the Morgan Parker poem / about the gap in Angela Daviss teeth speaking / to the gap in James Baldwins smile" and her sons paternal grandmothers regret of closing hers. Water Castles speaker calls out racism from her privileged White position while also showing love and gratitude for the people who made her.-Douglas Manuel, author of Trouble Funk and TestifyNatalie Solmers Water Castle begins, "Consider with me, my moats"-those magical aqueous circles protecting sacred interiors. Inescapable winds and wounds of inheritance push the speaker into musings about memory, art, family, earth, motherhood. Past and present whisper their secrets: the sassing ghosts of two grandmothers, the lengthening legs of the poets children. We are caught in the spell of this poets cyclical, mystical wonder. But for me, the heart of Water Castle resides in the power of love "to lift for a moment / the foggy veil of this terrible / earth."-Alessandra Lynch, author of Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment and Pretty Tripwire Details ISBN 1639806458 ISBN-13 9781639806454 Title Water Castle Author Natalie Solmer Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 104 Publisher Kelsay Books GE_Item_ID:162598518; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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