A Rupture in the Interiors

This new collection of poems is a rapturous exploration of im/perfection, threading innovative form and histories of value--of the female body, especially--with dream logic and associative mastery.

Polyphony of silk and skin, A RUPTURE IN THE INTERIORS is a rapturous exploration of im/perfection, threading innovative form and histories of value -- of the female body, especially, and of material worth -- with dream logic and associative mastery. This is a modern tapestry of everyday traumas that, while seemingly minor, mark us all as participants in the human experience. Woven together, these images of disorder and defect tell a story of the superficial damage that runs deep, and that cannot slip from us unseen or unfelt.

"Valerie Witte's ambitious, densely associative poems offer a 'tissue of stories unfolding' in which she reinvents the very nature of skin; as map, as strata, as a process of reckoning. Here, Witte takes on the challenge of embodiment, its coils and fugitive film, bringing the reader into a richly lyrical disorientation."
--Elizabeth Robinson, author of Excursive

Poetry. Women's Studies.