between every bird, our bones • Print Only

Summary

between every bird, our bones is reverence amidst ruin. emet responds to the violence of military occupation with domestic intimacy, trailed by medical debt and grackles. these poems inhabit the body on edge, cancerous and queer, migrating between texas and palestine. they ask: how to care for a place when you’re not allowed back?

Details

• Selected for the 2021 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 40 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
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Praise

“I simply could not stop reading this bold collection of poems at once dream-flooded and grounded in the quotidian, at once deeply local and radically global. Here is a speaker unafraid to get vulnerable, while understanding the pitfalls and limits of personal revelation.”
        —Chen Chen

“between every bird, our bones moots the differences between poetry and prose, fusing the strengths of each into language that is simultaneously down-to-earth and luminous with presence.”
        —Joy Ladin

“Bless these brief, exquisite incantations, phrases cut and torn and stitched into talismans of survival, full of echoes. It’s easy to get lost in clever juxtaposition, but emet wields the technique with impassioned discipline, intent on accurately telling their complex truths. These fragments are set in intricate patterns with the inner logic of dreams: each with their precious hearts and harsh edges, the clinical cold of an MRI chamber and love touching fingers through fences. The result is breathtaking.”
        —Aurora Levins Morales Maricao

Author

Born and raised beneath Texas skies, emet ezell inhabits the borderlands between the visible and the invisible. A community organizer, song leader, and aquarius rising, their writing has been published by Mizna, the Southern Humanities Review, and PM Press. emet lives rooted in diaspora, making home between Berlin and the American South. When they reincarnate, they hope to become a bird.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.