Poetry
The Snakes Came Back
- Publisher
- Metatron Press
- Published
- September 2023
- Pages
- 128
- Price
- $20.00
- ISBN
- 9781988355368
- Language
- English
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The team behind the book
- Cover
- Mary Herbert
In its palm, time is a gap that is closing, But the spirit throws its head to the wind without hurry. It has looked out at time’s expanse. It already knows it’s infinite.
In Lora Mathis’s poems, the body is a temporary resting place for the infinite, resilient soul. The Snakes Came Back follows a speaker contending with trauma in the slipstream of earthly time. Mathis’s poems are peopled with friends and lovers—both named and anonymous, current and past—and invested in necessary interdependence as a means of healing the self. But the self is not fractured. The self is composed of memory, navigating impulses of woundedness with awareness and compassion. Mouths and tongues figure prominently throughout this reflective and forthcoming collection, evocative of the insatiable desire of our hungry ghosts. The mouth is, however, as much a space of hunger and desire as it is an erogenous zone of self-expression and agency. Mapping affective geographies of memory, The Snakes Came Back cracks open everyday tasks and familiar landscapes to reveal their haunting depths. Saturated with heat and wind, Mathis’s poems vibrate with the will to face life’s temporality, its impossible contradictions, its beauty and its pain: “There is loss, but there is renewal too.”
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From Metatron Press
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Aqueous Mind Bath
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Wavering Futures Kawai Shen
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Lateral Sway Hannah Karpinski
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all the time Xiaoxuan Huang
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Opening Ceremony Laura Marie Marciano
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Continuum Ivanna Baranova
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The Choice Is Real Jayson Keery
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Little Fury Casey Bell
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Thirty Marie Darsigny
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Para-Social Butterfly Šari Dale
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New Infinity Bára Hladík
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the half-drowned Trynne Delaney
