Alt-Nature
Subtitle
Poems
"Alt-Nature" moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest.
These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. 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.
Bio
Saretta Morgan is a visiting writer with the Department of English and Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at ASU.
Praise for this book
Saretta Morgan presents ambidextrous poems that palpate the edges of many different borders.
Rachel Carroll Los Angeles Review of Books
Both expansive and compact, 'Alt-Nature' is ultimately outstanding. The dynamic poetry promises a refreshing swim through deep waters.
Vivienne N. Germain The Harvard Crimson