“This book with its forehead to the earth. A book of tears. A book of grief. A book of resource. How Lisbeth White listens for the messages of dirt and bones, reminding me that word is sound, breath, mark—gesture 'to make a sudden temple.” I follow her into the gorgeous greenness of her questions—“how long can filament grow / in the memory of hands?' and 'didn’t we live / as a forest…'—and find myself closer to my own life, reaching and reaching toward reunion..”
—Aracelis Girmay, author of the black maria
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Lisbeth was just hosted by Imprint Bookstore and Winter Texts
in the Mixed Metaphor Literary Series on September 25.
Lovely to see the book in the wild & Lisbeth reading under trees!
Photos courtesy of Imprint Bookstore
