Description
Poetry. "Look at Darla Himeles, there on the razor's edge of survival as a Jew, note-taker of past and future extinctions, a poet fearless of science, unafraid of love or laughter. Listen as she sings love songs to the cephalopod dead, the manatees' eyes 'cataracted by microplastics,' and the Colorado that 'forgets it's a river.' Smile as she imagines T.S. Eliot becoming a blue crab. Meditate with her on our own eyes, possible 'reservoirs of the Anthropocene's / last sunlit hours.' Himeles helps us know our place as specks of a star, kin to all animals, in poems that dance with the pleasure of language." —Alicia Ostriker
Author Bio
Darla Himeles, a Philadelphia-based poet, translator, and essayist, can be read in recent issues of Women's Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Storyscape, New Ohio Review, and Pittsburgh Poetry Review. An associate editor for The Stillwater Review, Darla holds an AB in English from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University. She is currently a doctoral student in American literature at Temple University.
Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA