VIA and desertification

and desertification

From the press: For almost a quarter of a century

Critically acclaimed in its time

Raquel Salas Rivera

but these girls know how to plot the coordinates of their finite struggles and watch over one another with a sagacity that's as intimate and precise as the hand-drawn grid of a note passed secretly at the back of a crowded classroom

VIA and desertificationPoetry. Winter Editions, 2023. Paperback, 136 pages. 7. 95" x 5. 12" From the press: Poet Claire DeVoogds first book explores what happens to speech, history, and the future when approached from an imagined position after endingafter aftercharting a path from an unreal before to modernity. Claire DeVoogd has a capacious mind. Her poetry has the commotion of historys frantic details and grand movements, and a metaphysical silence that is post