Summary
Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegies in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone—all while the wider world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, The Blue Mimes is a book of grounding and heartening resolve, even and especially in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644452790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644452790 |
| Author: | Sara Daniele Rivera |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 181mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“Loss and mourning likewise haunt this debut, which mixes forms (sonnets, prose poems, lyric free verse) to plumb the dawn of Covid and a father’s death.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Sara Daniele Rivera’s poems are fractals of home, landscape and beloveds. They begin in losses and end and begin again in rhythmic half-details. English wraps to Spanish in which grief is constantly pulsing, breaking every turbulence into pattern. Rivera writes ‘I want to believe death is only a pause / in our continuous language.’ As readers, we accompany the poet in her search for endurance. The Blue Mimes is a beautiful collection, pointing us to look in tender directions, and figuring a gestalt made from contemporary terrors and the plainsong of ancestors.”–Lauren Camp
“This collection of 27 poems is bursting with sound and light, even as it reckons with a multitude of griefs, both personal and public.” –Sara Beth West, Shelf Awareness
“Through different forms and frames, Rivera’s poems traverse feelings while rearranging the wounds… . Rivera’s code-switching, the alternating possibilities offered in the poems happen comfortably, though not necessarily in a comforting way. But the speaking endures.”–Lúcia Leão, RHINO
Sara Daniele Rivera
Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban/Peruvian artist, writer, translator, and educator from Albuquerque. Her poetry and fiction have been published in literary journals and anthologies. She was awarded a 2017 St. Botolph’s Emerging Artist Award and won the 2018 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry. Her drawings, sculptures, and community-based installations focus on text-in-space as social intervention, and her public art projects are often developed in collaboration with youth.
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