Desert Songs

By Nellie Reina Stansbury

In her collection Desert Songs, Nellie provides a narrative about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of song-poems. The poems, in the form of irregular tercets, describe her dreamworld: a place of beauty and loneliness emblazoned with recurring colors and images-dunes, glass, burial, snakes, blood-red, the whiteness of sand, and the absence of others. Stansbury's explorations lead her back to herself and circle an understanding that any search for identity must first be stripped barren. This book illuminates the poetic logic of the dreaming mind as it attempts to escape real-life into an imagined world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1795200065
• ISBN13: 9781795200066
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"