Waterbaby
Nikki Wallschlaeger
(Author)
Description
In her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to water--the natural element of grief--to trace history's interconnected movements through family, memory, and day-to-day survival. Waterbaby is a book about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral joys and sharp pains that travel together through the nervous system's crowded riverways; about the holy sanctuary of the bathtub for a spirit that's pushed beyond exhaustion. Waterbaby sings the blues in every key, as Wallschlaeger uses her vibrant lexicon and varied rhythms to condense and expand emotion, hurry and slow meaning, communicating the profound simultaneity of righteous dissatisfaction with an unjust world, and radical love for what's possible.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date
April 06, 2021
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781556596131
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About the Author
Nikki Wallschlaeger's work has been featured in The Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called "Operation USA" through the Baltimore-based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.
Reviews
"Wallschlaeger's latest collection is political, personal, and timely."-- Publishers Weekly "How can you not be grateful, in such an ugly time, for a poet who so closely and wryly and wrenchingly and furiously observes a nation?"--Chicago Tribune "She deploys a new vocabulary for talking about the legacies of slavery and white supremacy as they manifest in daily life--a vocabulary that is as damning as it is lush, as rich with sound as it is bright with image... The domestic scenes she makes in her poems complicate clichés of who black women in America are 'supposed' to be." --Hyperallergic "The first-person perspective is harrowing and heartbreaking in its vulnerability and honesty."-- Luna Luna Magazine "Wallschlaeger's is a poetics of multiplication and plurality."-- Entropy "I admire the grave persistence of her vision, the precision of her eye and ear."--Joyelle McSweeney
