FATES: The Medea Notebooks; Starfish Wash-up; and overflow of an unknown self
by Ann Pedone, Katherine Soniat, and D. M. Spitzer
For our fourth Tribus, we present Fates, in which three poets—Ann Pedone, Katherine Soniat, and D. M. Spitzer—weave destinies by reimagining stories from the past. The books of Fates resist retellings. Instead, they reopen stories we have been carrying with us. They explore the limits and possibilities of form, testing the poetic line. And they invite new voices to disturb the universe. Each book of this Tribus, at once a daring translation and a rich original work of art, offers a distinct poetic voice. Yet, when read together, the books of Fates transform into a collective love song, three disparate poets all singing resolute, all singing luminous.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann Pedone is the author of the chapbooks Th e Bird Happened (Leave Books), perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho (Cup and Dagger Press), DREAM/WORK, and Everywhere You Put Your Mouth (Halas Press).
EXCERPT FROM THE WORK “Medea’s Prologue”
I made of their flesh
no more than a sieve.
I had no idea what she
meant by this but
maybe it was
just a bad translation.
I looked at her and all
of the earth’s matter
fell from her face.
Come,
let’s count out all
the different ways
there are to enter
a woman’s body.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Katherine Soniat’s Starfish Wash-Up is her ninth collection of poetry, to be published in spring, 2023. Other titles include Th e Swing Girl (LSU Press, 2011), Bright Stranger (LSU Press, 2016) and Polishing the Glass Storm will be available through Louisiana State University Press in fall, 2022.
EXCERPT FROM THE WORK “Th e Magical Age of Quitting”
But please let’s return to my perfect outrage: how can some duplicitous voice then warn me, do be careful where you travel
after birth?
Entanglements drag us through time. Foreshadow. Post-shadow,
or preemptive strikes of magic
matter not at all
for I did it. . . it was me/Telemachus
who was born and took on that status as trophy sacks of grain for rats to eat in winter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- D. M. Spitzer is author of A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey (Etruscan Press, 2016), abyss of departures, an image|text collaboration with digital artist Sara Shiva Spitzer (Hawai’i Review, 2020), and editor of the volume Philosophy’s Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation (Vernon Press, 2020).
EXCERPT FROM THE WORK from “Canto 5”
…a silent tide pools
in the basin of your neck
your mouth’s words
before any words a breath
sweetens the air across lips
shed sacred names as petals as
breath overfl ow the mouth
in low-relief your hands
blossom the light the earth
a box of ivory inlaid with lapis
a forest of columns marble white as doves upon a foundation of dark gold
an image of smoking incense…
BOOK INFORMATION
Available Spring 2023 7 x 10 | 232 pp
$20.00
ISBN: 978-1-7364946-8-4
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