The Outerwards

By Sadiqa de Meijer

"I was awake. / The hour was wrong," de Meijer writes, and her poems track, in visceral and tender detail, the distraction, exhaustion, exhilaration, and fear of child-rearing through crisis. For de Meijer, the experience was also a crisis of language, and the struggle to find new terms for her state. Addressed, in part, to a child she calls "my grievous spectacle, / my dearest unpossessable," The Outer Wards is everywhere marked by a joy in words--their quick-fire turns, sumptuous sounds, and nursery-rhyme seductions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550655450
• ISBN13: 9781550655452
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.4"