Violent Wave poetry reading

"The torrential sensations, forms of matter, literary references, and ecologies of being that feed Natasha Mijares' practice come pouring out in violent wave. As a poet, Mijares holds the sparse page with remarkable potency, using mimesis to move through worlds and push readers into ripples of quiet overwhelm. Her language gathers experiential inputs ranging from earthworms to the interstate, celebrating interrelationships delicately crafted on the page. The lines themselves perform the action of a violent wave-separating, gathering, and crashing into air, emptiness, and unsettled earth. Like water, the collection attempts to contain everything in its path for inquiry, understanding, and meditation. This book-length poem enlivens a myriad of voices negotiating space, language, and nature while settling into the recognition that change is constant. "In this book-length poem, a calm horizon swells into a wild symphony," says Mijares. "Violent wave is a meditation on human and non-human animals and the environment's complex needs, desires, beauties, and dangers. A landscape for the reader to explore, my debut invites the reader to slowly wade through ways of being." "Natasha Mijares' violent wave is a stunning meditation on the interconnectedness of human and non-human worlds-a text that moves fluidly between fragmentation and vivid sensory detail," says Bridge Books Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman. "Her poetic structure evokes the fragment, conjuring images as fleeting as they are resonant. In lines such as 'i am thinking of a way of saying angel with my feet,' Mijares' sparse yet electric language detonates across the page." Mijares asks readers to linger in the white spaces between phrases and swim in the undercurrents of thought, moving from the microscopic to the mythic. Violent wave is both landscape and journey, inviting the reader to wade through its depths and surface profoundly changed"--