DANUSHA LAMÉRIS at Books Inc. Alameda

Books Inc. Alameda is proud to present Danusha Laméris featured poet with the Book of Light Poetry Series.

She joins us to read and sign copies of her latest book, Blade By Blade.

Danusha Laméris’s third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in “the heart’s farthest chambers.” Seeking a way back to joy following the deaths of her son and brother, the poet finds wonder in the furred legs of a caterpillar, in egrets, elephants, and elk, solace in the seagull’s speckled egg. Here we taste a longing to kiss in the dark corner of the gym, to leap into a volcano’s molten fire, to be unraveled, undone thread by thread, made one with all things. Microscopic and tidal, earthquake and fire-prone, Blade by Blade thrives in the underbrush of human emotion. These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we’ve forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again.

Danusha Laméris is a poet and an essayist born to a Dutch father and a Barbadian mother and raised in Northern California. Her first book, The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), won the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. She is also the author of Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and a winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award. Laméris’s poems have been published in The Best American Poetry, the New York Times, The American Poetry Review, the Gettysburg Review, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and Poetry magazine. Her essays and interviews appear in Orion, Poets & Writers, and The American Scholar. Laméris is the recipient of the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. As the 2018–2020 Santa Cruz, California, Poet Laureate, Laméris cofounded The Hive Poetry Collective. She teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program.

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