Totem: America - Debra Kang Dean
These poems remind me of the value—the necessity—of slow, deep, deliberate, looking. Looking that happens with beautiful and precise music, with expertly crafted images, with story and association. They remind me, too, that this kind of looking is also often called reflection. Because in looking, we can be illuminated.
—Ross Gay
ISBN 978-0-9976305-9-62018$16.95DEBRA KANG DEAN is the author of News of Home (1998) and Precipitates (2003), both from BOA Editions. She has also published Back to Back (1997) and Fugitive Blues (2014), both prize-winning chapbooks, and Morning’s Spell (2013), a chapbook of renku written with Russ Kesler. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and her essays are included in the expanded edition of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2011) and in Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin (2012). She teaches in Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.
These poems remind me of the value—the necessity—of slow, deep, deliberate, looking. Looking that happens with beautiful and precise music, with expertly crafted images, with story and association. They remind me, too, that this kind of looking is also often called reflection. Because in looking, we can be illuminated.
—Ross Gay
ISBN 978-0-9976305-9-62018$16.95DEBRA KANG DEAN is the author of News of Home (1998) and Precipitates (2003), both from BOA Editions. She has also published Back to Back (1997) and Fugitive Blues (2014), both prize-winning chapbooks, and Morning’s Spell (2013), a chapbook of renku written with Russ Kesler. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and her essays are included in the expanded edition of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2011) and in Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin (2012). She teaches in Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.
These poems remind me of the value—the necessity—of slow, deep, deliberate, looking. Looking that happens with beautiful and precise music, with expertly crafted images, with story and association. They remind me, too, that this kind of looking is also often called reflection. Because in looking, we can be illuminated.
—Ross Gay
ISBN 978-0-9976305-9-62018$16.95DEBRA KANG DEAN is the author of News of Home (1998) and Precipitates (2003), both from BOA Editions. She has also published Back to Back (1997) and Fugitive Blues (2014), both prize-winning chapbooks, and Morning’s Spell (2013), a chapbook of renku written with Russ Kesler. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and her essays are included in the expanded edition of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2011) and in Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin (2012). She teaches in Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.
