Dissolve: Poems

Bitsui, Sherwin

ISBN 10: 155659545X / ISBN 13: 9781556595455

Published by Copper Canyon Press, Port Melbourne, Australia, 2018

About this Item

Inscribed on the title page by Sherwin Bitsui; a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; author is Navaho; 72 pagesa.

Seller Inventory # 025193

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dissolve: Poems
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, Port Melbourne, Australia
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155659545X
• ISBN 13: 9781556595455
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Second Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

“Bitsui’s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.” ―Library Journal

Drawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, Dissolve is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century’s most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.

From “(Untitled)”:

. . . Jeweled with houseflies,
leather rattles, foil-wrapped,
ferment in beaked masks
on the shores of evaporating lakes.
This plot, now a hotel garden,
its fountain gushing forth―
the slashed wrists of the Colorado River.

Sherwin Bitsui was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them Flood Song, which won an American Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona where he has serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

About the Author

Sherwin Bitsui was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them Flood Song, which won an American Book Award in 2010. He currently lives in Arizona where he has served as the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts since 2013.