5/27/2023 0 Comments Dots & Dashes by Jehanne Dubrow![]() ![]() “Mary, Mother Incarnate, carny / of the most marvelous yarn” is the invocation of “The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits.” Society spends a lot of time debating nature versus nurture, but what is deemed “natural” carries its own politic. In Conjoining, Heidi Czerwiec interrogates what happens when progeny is made spectacle. ![]() It is, quite clearly, a triumph.” Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman This book amplifies the very alphabet, bringing us new language for the most ancient of stories and rituals. The concerns of this book are tensely painful, but Heidi Czerwiec, a poet so silky-smooth in her use of form, compels us to read and read further, giving voice to the marginalized and slighted lives she depicts with true and tender mercies. Conjoining is not an easy book, but then again, it traverses some of the hardest territory a writer can encounter and confront–loss and pain, the “parasitic” twinning of vulnerable lives. “The fierce and fertile imagination of Heidi Czerwiec is a force to be reckoned with in this sublime collection of poems. ![]() ![]() Sable Books is pleased and proud to announce the poetry collection Conjoining, by Heidi Czerwiec. ![]()
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