Saturday, August 10, 2024

The Sealey Challenge, Day 10: The Blue Mimes by Sara Daniele Rivera

This book was selected by one of my instructors at Pacific's MFA program, the insightful Eduardo Corral, for the Academy of American Poets First Book award, and I received it from the Academy a perk of my membership. Intimate and lyrical, and the kind of book that will likely reveal more and more to readers with multiple readings. 



A taste of her language:

The song arrived to us braided from figures of speech. In the leftover story-pits, song. The
song doesn't fit inside of a life but fits in the skull of a sparrow, sitting on a shelf in the
gallery on our perfect day. A breakable thing, lacking a body, is still capable of sound.
The slightness of air, threading through the gaps. 


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