Against Sky's Warm Belly: New & Selected Poems

by Sarah Cortez

The poems of Sarah Cortez flex lean muscles to build lyric intensity and a gripping edginess often backlit by an incandescent, controlled eroticism. Cortez reveals the hidden underworld of her fellow police officers, whose lives comprise the thin blue line and whose blood sometimes splashes and blackens on summer concrete.
Aquarium

And what of the water?
A transparency
we swim through, lithe
white muscle,
the glide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680031090
• ISBN13: 9781680031096
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"