Description
Poetry. BOTTOMLAND is a collection of six longer sequences of poems: American Rough-leg; Bottomland; Catalogue of Utilities; A Pictorial History of Wilderness; Route to Cloudless: Day; and Mimesis, Synaptic. In this collection, Laressa Dickey sustains something of the spirit and space of the poem over a longer period of time, and explores the poem as an improvisational space. The poems were born in the deep chill of the Minnesota winter, and they begin out of her experience and memories of growing up on her family's tobacco farm in Tennessee, but move on to much more.
Author Bio
Laressa Dickey is a writer based in Sweden. She's the author of SYNCOPATIONS (Shearsman Books, 2019), ROAM (Shearsman Books, 2016), BOTTOMLAND (Shearsman Books, 2014), and Twang, as well as several chapbooks, including A Piece of Information About His Invisibility. Together with Andrea Steves, she co-authored Radio Graveyard Orbit, a speculative book about space junk. With Magdalena Freudenschuss, she's written a series of feminist texts entitled: Re:assembling Emotional Labor: On the Politics of Care. Together with her partner Ali Gharavi, she is creating an installation for the Bergen Assembly 2019 entitled How to Pass Time With No Reference, about their experiences inside/outside Turkish prison.
Author City: MEMPHIS, TN USA