Description: "An epic poem of a survival examines what makes us human when removed from the human world, what identity means where it is a useless thing, and how loss shapes us"--
Review Quotes:
"At this dark, late hour of our planet, there is grace in the way Sarah Blake looks through the lens of different species for a better gauge of our own human lives. In Springtime is where Blake also expands our perception of wounds, 'Injury lends a certain steadiness. Like your whole life was spent uneasy in your body.' This new book is a brilliant, bona fide page-turner."--CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration
"From the onset of Sarah Blake's moving lyric narrative of an unnamed speaker inextricably linked with three key nonhuman entities: horse, mouse, dead bird, it is clear that we embark on a numinous path more elemental than allegorical. As we inhabit the speaker's bodily and cognitive experiences through the second person 'you, ' Blake transports us via a radical inter-species empathy that flows also between the living and the dead. In a time of great division, this is a poetics not of time spent 'measuring distances, ' but a most tender 'act of touching."--Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Ghost Of