Sky Tongued Back with Light by Sébastien Luc Butler

Sky Tongued Back with Light

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Sky Tongued Back with Light

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Sky Tongued Back with Light

by Sébastien Luc Butler

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 Snared between dream-like myth and harsh recollections of growing up, Sky Tongued Back with Light probes the sites of violence, beauty, and transformation that punctuate a boy's childhood and adolescence in the rural, northern Midwest.

Sifting memory's scattered fragments to interrogate grief, gender, and the fragility of family, Sébastien Luc Butler's poems navigate landscapes both physical and spiritual. Steeped in the voice of myth and images of the otherworldly, these poems move through personal and collective silences towards self-actualization and love. Examining a culture that teaches violence to the self as the basis for violence against others, this collection holds still those moments where the corporal and incorporeal converge with lasting impact.
Book Details
Publisher:
Black Lawrence Press
ISBN:
9781625572028
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
38
Authors:
Sébastien Luc Butler
Published Date:
2026-03-03
Language:
English
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About Sebastien Luc Butler

Born and raised in Michigan, Sebastien Luc Butler earned an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he held a Poe/Faulkner Fellowship in poetry and served as poetry editor for Meridian. The chapbook Sky Tongued Back with Light won the Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2026. Butler received the Hopwood Award for Poetry and the Patricia Cleary Award for Poetry, and has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Levis Book Prize. His poems appear in Narrative, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, and Four Way Review. He serves as an assistant editor at West Trade Review.

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