Hart Island

By Stacy Szymaszek

In hart island, the poet narrator walks and works in the East Village of Manhattan navigating the day to day needs and desires of a community, an organization, a changing neighborhood, as well as her own. The poem, which begins after she discovers the existence of an appropriated, politically walled-off potter's field/prison, proposes that others are not figurative or metaphorical, but are literal, material--that alterity can be both a limit and radiance. Praise for Stacy Szymaszek: "Each poem is what I am looking for: a resonance with a particular location, an intelligence unafraid of its humanity, a sort of desperate adequacy with the people or objects that Szymaszek encounters."--Etel Adnan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658341
• ISBN13: 9781937658342
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"