Instructions for the Lovers Edward van de Vendel sounding as thought

sounding as thought

Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love

While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh

is comprised of poems selected from both titles

poetry is her weapon – "these migrant poems from all languages

Instructions for the Lovers Edward van de Vendel sounding as thoughtDawn Lundy Martin A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. 'Dawn Lundy Martins poems read like a real time excavation of what poetry can and cant do,' writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother,