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"To enter Berry Grass' Hall of Waters is to agree to a deep-sea excavation through baths that are simultaneously familiar yet foreign. Grass is your guide--pen light in hand, illuminating darknesses that cause the light to refract back upon the reader and author. In Missouri, there are no natural lakes--instead, they are created by dam construction; the water cutting a swath through the trees. The springs, however, are believed to be true blue, as Grass says, 'And it's all so healthy, isn't it? So restorative? To soak in our nature's superior water and pretend that superiority is therefore our nature. To pretend that the concept of natural is natural.' Hall of Waters is an examination of how America loves to be undisturbed after claiming what it believes to be theirs, and how Grass finds a way to reclaim identity while still carrying traces of the fountains of the past."--Brian Oliu, author of So You Know It's Me "We forget that one product of fire's burning is water. And Berry Grass' searing and far-seeing, tetrahedral and tenderhearted micro memoirs set in the osmotic membrane of the Middle Border, Hall of Waters, re-minds us of these fused and confused outcomes at the core of the combustion of cognition. There is nothing I can think of akin to the elemental chemistry of this book. It is sublime, yes, but in its exquisitely rendered prose it rewrites (and rights) the valences that bond us to the place of place and the us of us. This water is 'hard' water indeed, but in the dissolved solids one finds a balm, a welling, a source, and a baptism all drenched and drenching in liquid fire."--Michael Martone, Author of The Moon Over Wapakoneta and Brooding HALL OF WATERS is an attempt to demythologize the rural American Midwest through the specific example of the author's hometown, Excelsior Springs, MO. Through lyric essay &amp; memoir, the book seeks to examine &amp; undercut the inherent settler white supremacy of the Midwestern small-town, to deromanticize the nostalgia for land &amp; place that is the hallmark of Midwestern art, &amp; to think about what it was like growing up queer &amp; trans in such a toxic environment. excerpts appear at: The Wanderer Tiny Mag Phoebe Journal Diagram The Fanzine The Map is Not

Hall of Waters

Arts & Photography

Grass, Berry

Individual Artists

Operating System Kin(d)* Texts and Projects

Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien is a poetry memoir that takes up the intersections of Indigeneity, Blackness, queerness and migration as it relates to U.S. federal immigration law. The book pushes the boundaries of an "undocumented immigrant narrative"via the poet's refusal to belong to United Statian society and the refusal of a structured poetics.In fact, the chaotic geographies of the manuscript (collages + photographs + emails + negative space) formulate theories of fugitivity that position the transAtlantic slave trade and Indigenous dispossession as root causes of undocumented immigration. In this refusal of national belonging and form, the book asks for a critical kinship that the law can never account for, and thus, Pelaez Lopez negotiates legal status for new imaginaries of care. As a whole, the manuscript asks: "what does it mean that a descendant of enslaved Africans becomes an illegal alien in the same continent that subjugated their ancestors to chattel slavery?" Furthermore, "can an Indigenous subject of this continent be considered 'illegal' in the continent of their ancestors?"

Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien

Literature & Fiction

Pelaez Lopez, Alan

Poetry

'In Still Rooms' is a poetic memoir disguised as an ancient Greek tragedy disguised as a haunted house novella. Set in an old house in rural East Tennessee, three generations of a Greek-American family mourn the loss of a matriarch who reveals herself to each of them in unique ways. Regardless of the family's comings and goings, the reader remains always in the house. In this house, religion, mythology, and superstition all exist at once. In this house, saints speak to mothers from their plaques on the wall; ancient deities manifest in the minds of children; a chorus of those who have previously died there periodically address the reader directly; and ultimately, the house itself begins to speak.

In Still Rooms

Jones, Constantine

United States

RoseSunWater

Domínguez, Ángel

Literary

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