Only Blue Body

By Rosalynde Vas Dias

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. "ONLY BLUE BODY is about becoming animal in a world that is not fairytale. Exquisitely written, its poems boldly confront contemporary fear and beauty. 'I've always wanted dark blue skin' writes the poet and it's a bruise she's after, the throat unguarded, the jaw tipped upward. Viewed from a 'constricted point of light, ' everything is out of scale, fearfully small or far too big. Much of the imagery startles: a mosquito becomes a brood mare, a horse a grackle. You can't take your eyes off the fire's 'salamander-shaped eddies' because nothing in the poem suggests its arrival, nothing predicts its exit." Terese Svoboda, contest judge"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934695297
• ISBN13: 9781934695296
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Anhinga Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"