Blade by Blade

<span><p><span><span><b><span><i>Blade by Blade</i> </span><span>is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness.</span></b></span><br></span></p><p><span>Danusha Laméris’s third book,</span><span> <i>Blade by Blade</i>,</span><span> is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in “the heart’s farthest chambers.” Seeking a way back to joy following the deaths of her son and brother, the poet finds wonder in the furred legs of a caterpillar, in egrets, elephants, and elk, solace in the seagull’s speckled egg. Here we taste a longing to kiss in the dark corner of the gym, to leap into a volcano’s molten fire, to be unraveled, undone thread by thread, made one with all things. Microscopic and tidal, earthquake and fire-prone, </span><span><i>Blade by Blade</i></span><span> thrives in the underbrush of human emotion. These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we’ve forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again.</span></p><p><span><br></span></p></span>