Wildness Before Something Sublime

In dreams and memories, night poems and a centos, Wildness Before Something Sublime emerges at the edge of language to excavate the bodyits desires and griefs.Leila Chattis Wildness Before Something Sublime confronts a world defined by dualitieslove and loss, wonder and despair, the gift of sunflowers / by the roadside and the pain of losing a pregnancy. Night Poems, written on the brink of sleep, travel the dream world and the subconscious mind to unearth the unfiltered self, to understand identity, desire, and the body. Other poems become acts of divination, calling on God and the Muse, calling on the voices of beloved women poetsLucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, C.D. Wrightto comb through the dark. Chatti expertly grapples with the pain of what a body should but cannot do. Under the shifting weight of this grief, poems fragment, become ruptures of language, experimentations, refractions, a kaleidoscope of recurring sound and image. Snow, light, milk, clouds, silence. Behind every positive image, the shadow of its opposite, an echo of emotion. As Chatti bridges the gap between dream and language, the external and internal, a new world emergesa world in which darkness is reclaimed.