
Rust Fish
Poems
Maya Jewell Zeller(Author)
Lost Horse Press
Will be published approx. on 27. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-9844510-9-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Zeller's first book, Rust Fish, a young woman has a conversation with the succulent natural world. They speak of the endless summers of youth, the sober winters of the Pacific Northwest, the violence of children, and the benign neglect that nature offers even its acolytes.
Throughout the book, fish are this speaker's consorts. Fish, both real and imagined, stream through these poems, past the various totems of working class poverty to the inevitable sea. Zeller asks many big questions in quiet, sly ways in this wonder-full book. How can a person live in such a gorgeous and difficult world? How can the sensual redeem us? Which is the bruise that heals? Which is the one that stays?
Throughout the book, fish are this speaker's consorts. Fish, both real and imagined, stream through these poems, past the various totems of working class poverty to the inevitable sea. Zeller asks many big questions in quiet, sly ways in this wonder-full book. How can a person live in such a gorgeous and difficult world? How can the sensual redeem us? Which is the bruise that heals? Which is the one that stays?
Reviews / Votes
Maya Zeller's American Northwest is a land of verdant sensuality, insistent yet fragile and intimate as it was in the eyes of Roethke, storied in mossy and weathered details, human ruin and hard won grace as it was in the heart of Kesey. With extraordinary veracity and empathy she inhabits the body and emerging consciousness of a girl and young woman alive to the lives around her. There are poetry books with the power to move poets, fewer poetry books with the power to move lovers of literature, and those rare poetry books with the power to move just about anyone else. Rust Fish is all three." - Jonathan JohnsonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sandpoint
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9844510-9-8 (9780984451098)
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Person
Maya Jewell Zeller grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She currently lives in Spokane with her husband and daughter, and teaches English at Gonzaga University.