Encounters for the Living and the Dead
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River River Books
Encounters for the Living and the Dead
$20.00
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Jameela F. Dallis's Encounters for the Living and the Dead is a sensual journey that sweeps the tangible world and the poet's beloveds into its arms--fiercely, tenderly, joyfully. Invoking ancestors and constructing altars to lost loved ones, this collection offers an oceanic engagement with visual art, filtering experience through desire and texture, the artist's canvas, and marine life (especially the bivalve and culinary delight, the oyster). In Dallis's hands, the ekphrastic poem awakes and becomes a living, breathing experience, the attentive act of art gazing on other art splitting open language with a glistening, iridescent shine. In the siren-like, crooning words of the poet:
you: thorny oyster tell me
tell me you want my grit--
from ocean unfathomed deep indigo, silk and saline
tell me I haven't come in vain
tell me I've made you hot, angry, agitated and left you wanting
wanting to be whole once more
Book Details
- Publisher:
- River River Books
- ISBN:
- 9798988137887
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 106
- Authors:
- Jameela F Dallis
- Published Date:
- 2025-09-23
- Language:
- English
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Encounters for the Living and the Dead by Jameela F. Dallis is a stunning debut collection and a master class in ekphrasis, with poems about ancestors, lost loves and desire, and oh my gosh, oysters.