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Severalty: Poems (Sun Tracks)
Severalty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. In these poems, river currents tick with the intrusion of the clock’s lavish precincts. From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Severalty shifts perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection.
With clear roots in her first two books of poetry, Tributaries and Instruments of the True Measure, this volume joins the author’s poetic trilogy with a deeply personal accounting of history, community, and selfhood.
Weaving the past and present into a stunning tapestry, this collection is a powerful testament to Indigenous endurance and creativity, offering readers a deeply insightful and necessary work.
With clear roots in her first two books of poetry, Tributaries and Instruments of the True Measure, this volume joins the author’s poetic trilogy with a deeply personal accounting of history, community, and selfhood.
Weaving the past and present into a stunning tapestry, this collection is a powerful testament to Indigenous endurance and creativity, offering readers a deeply insightful and necessary work.
- GenresPoetry
112 pages, Paperback
Published September 2, 2025
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January 9, 2026
Severalty: Poems is a luminous and deeply resonant collection that moves fluidly between memory, landscape, and lived experience. Laura Da’ crafts poems that shimmer between wholeness and severing, drawing readers into spaces where ancestral presence and contemporary life coexist. The language is precise and layered, allowing moments of devastation and healing to emerge with equal force.
What makes this collection especially compelling is its formal and emotional range. From compressed lyrical fragments to expansive narrative sequences, the poems examine transience, seasonality, loss, and renewal with quiet authority. Severalty feels both deeply personal and broadly communal, completing the author’s poetic trilogy with grace and urgency. It is a necessary and enduring contribution to contemporary poetry and Indigenous literature.
What makes this collection especially compelling is its formal and emotional range. From compressed lyrical fragments to expansive narrative sequences, the poems examine transience, seasonality, loss, and renewal with quiet authority. Severalty feels both deeply personal and broadly communal, completing the author’s poetic trilogy with grace and urgency. It is a necessary and enduring contribution to contemporary poetry and Indigenous literature.
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