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The Future Will Call You Something Else: Poems
“Is language our home, or is it a form of lament, an expression of our bewilderment and consternation? Throughout her career, Natasha Sajé has asked this question, always in the hope that words might offer us that ‘shelter’ that Celan so ardently believed they could. Sajé’s poems are searching, canny, whip-smart, scrupulously self-aware, and effortlessly capable of moving from wit to pathos, from worry to delight, all in the space of a few lines. The Future Will Call You Something Else is a book of genuine accomplishment, the work of a poet of consequence, one who is writing at the height of her considerable powers.” —David Wojahn
“Natasha Sajé embraces the world not only through the wisdom of the senses but with philosophical intelligence, writing poems that open heart and mind. She considers the kinds of knowledge that imprint and form us, marveling at what remains untranslatable. Employing the slippage and trap doors of etymology, Sajé questions humankind’s increasingly shaky place in nature. These poems alight ‘...on a fence dividing/ governable from wild/ known from unknown.’”
—Amy Gerstler
“Natasha Sajé’s quicksilver, wideawake poems in The Future Will Call You Something Else never fail to delight and impress me with their at-the-ready empathy, encyclopedic wit, and prismatic range of allusions. With its ‘all systems go’ verve and vigorous attention to the myriad world, this dazzling, exhilarating new book is a treasure and a wonder.”
—Cyrus Cassells
“Natasha Sajé embraces the world not only through the wisdom of the senses but with philosophical intelligence, writing poems that open heart and mind. She considers the kinds of knowledge that imprint and form us, marveling at what remains untranslatable. Employing the slippage and trap doors of etymology, Sajé questions humankind’s increasingly shaky place in nature. These poems alight ‘...on a fence dividing/ governable from wild/ known from unknown.’”
—Amy Gerstler
“Natasha Sajé’s quicksilver, wideawake poems in The Future Will Call You Something Else never fail to delight and impress me with their at-the-ready empathy, encyclopedic wit, and prismatic range of allusions. With its ‘all systems go’ verve and vigorous attention to the myriad world, this dazzling, exhilarating new book is a treasure and a wonder.”
—Cyrus Cassells
- GenresPoetry
92 pages, Paperback
Published February 7, 2023
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March 27, 2023
Natasha Sajé's poetry has blown me away since I came across Red Under the Skin back in the 1990s. In this, her newest collection, she continues to roar with passion and intensity, squeezing every drop of juice out of these words. Every poem is my new favorite until I turn the page. One that stayed with me is "Dear Fate":
" The best and worst
thing about you, Fate, is that you don't
fall into a pattern like a nineteenth-
century novel or for that matter,
my own self-image. Your affection
flickers, a loose eyelash. Your
indifference is divine."
I highly recommend this book. It's one of the greats of 2023.
" The best and worst
thing about you, Fate, is that you don't
fall into a pattern like a nineteenth-
century novel or for that matter,
my own self-image. Your affection
flickers, a loose eyelash. Your
indifference is divine."
I highly recommend this book. It's one of the greats of 2023.
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