Even the Air, Too Heavy - Softcover

Danvers, Riley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1958600016 ISBN 13: 9781958600016

Publisher: First Matter Press, 2022

Synopsis

When the body becomes a monument of loss, the self must navigate a vast internal space, not on the world's timeline, but in its own circadian cadences. Riley Danvers' collection Even the Air, Too Heavy wayfinds through the emptiness of miscarriage with words and experimental forms that examine the vacated, the absent, the lost. What is not on the page is as painful as the recounting. The autonomous physiology of the body and the sterile  technical procedures we apply to it magnify the spirit's estrangement with its mortal housing. In a world of how-to's and what-next's, Danvers' collection lives in the timelessness of tides and patterns, where the self drifts long as it takes for a path of healing to emerge.

About this title

About the Author

Riley Danvers is a bisexual poet living in Portland, Oregon with her partner, their cat, Lester, and corgi, Kiki. She graduated in 2016 with her A.S. in English and in 2018 with her B.A. in English Literature and Writing. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in more than twenty-five online and printed literary journals and anthologies. Her poetry has been published in Z Publishing House, Silkworm, Clackamas Literary Review, Other Worldly Women Press, Chasing Shadows, and Fox Paw Literary Blog. Riley graduated with her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Willamette University in 2021, and is currently pursuing a M.A. in Literature from Mercy College.

Edition details

• Publisher: First Matter Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1958600016
• ISBN 13: 9781958600016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70