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Ghostlines
“These poems mythify the alligator attack that killed my dearest friend in 2006.
To write this book—to inscribe myself into its bloodstained ecology—I have to become a bird.
I have to transform into the airborne body that shares a dinosaur ancestry with alligators and remains their closest modern kin.
I do this without much thinking, as if the evolution of reptilian scales into feathers were an adaptation to grief.
’Death,’ Edmond Jabès wrote, ‘means alliance.’”
—Lucas de Lima, author of Ghostlines
To write this book—to inscribe myself into its bloodstained ecology—I have to become a bird.
I have to transform into the airborne body that shares a dinosaur ancestry with alligators and remains their closest modern kin.
I do this without much thinking, as if the evolution of reptilian scales into feathers were an adaptation to grief.
’Death,’ Edmond Jabès wrote, ‘means alliance.’”
—Lucas de Lima, author of Ghostlines
30 pages, Chapbook
First published August 10, 2012
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