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Fever Dream / Take Heart
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781734284232
Publisher: Cathexis Northwest Press
Published: Jan 1 2020
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.12 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Valyntina Grenier's FEVER DREAM / TAKE HEART marks a poetic double debut with a tête-bêche chapbook, two titles bound upside-down with two front covers, which can be read from either side. The poems shape their sense from sound, but do not hesitate to critique/navigate/decipher reality with a feminist protest. Associative and dreamy, the poems also prove to be starkly political. They explore how we are miraculously alive in the midst of degrading political and weather systems. Some of the poems derive their initial lexicon from source texts, but they all confront the tenderness and violence that mark our human natures. With subtle humor, word play, and linguistic inventions, Grenier has written a surprising tour de force whose discrete short books, taken together, range from the sexual and sinister to the prayerful and divine.
Valyntina Grenier is a poet and visual artist living in Tucson, Arizona. She was born in Lancaster, California, and educated at The University of California, Berkeley, and St. Mary's College, Moraga. Graduating with an MFA in poetry, she is self-taught as a painter, installation and Neon artist. In both language and visual art, she pushes the boundaries of representation and abstraction to create a vantage from which to view violence and prejudice. An LGBTQIA artist and activist, her work has appeared in Lana Turner, JuxtaProse, Cathexis Northwest Press and Bat City Review.
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