Alt-Nature Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

Alt-Nature Maya Abu Al-HayyatSaretta Morgan These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for

in een mooiere

” No Language Is Neutral reads language

brand new dances

first published in 1994 and long out of print

someone who offers space when the emptiness becomes too heavy

' as she says in the title poem

and autobiographical detail

Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in Zulu's life

The human of the title is multiple

Snow-covered peaks slant shadows east

The War of the Orchards (1971)

the strangely activated temporalities of illness and pain