Alt-Nature
Description
To foil the context was to outrun the authority's imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why what we felt was not real.
To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and don the lonely pelt.
The poems of Alt-Nature move in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling and connection in the American Southwest. 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 love.
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Person
Saretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. She's interested in the ecologies and intimacies that materialize in the shadows of U.S. militarization. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative and organizes with the grassroots humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths, and with About Face: Veterans Against the War.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- First
- Dearth-light
- Consequences upon arrival (i)
- A language of subordination that privileges lung capacity holds my head up to its yellowing chest
- The language on fax cover sheets waiting in the hall
- Over a decade later I share with my mom in downtown Santa Fe
- For Francees, because she said, One day maybe you'll write a poem about us
- Consequences upon arrival (ii)
- If skin passes always through language, texture is compelled by desire
- Consequences upon arrival (iii)
- A horizontal appearance
- Dominant orientation lights a corridor wide as Mexico's northern border
- Whether the border looks out from eight hundred and fifty eyes, or two, the MBQ remains few though on the rise
- Consequences upon arrival (iv)
- The zen garden is nice on the weekends but the door will lock behind you
- The only time Abou has appeared in an unpleasant dream
- The revolution will not be televised, yet she turns from the horizon and is waving hello
- Consequences upon arrival (v)
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Funder Acknowledgments
- The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press
- About the Author
- Back Cover
