Salt Chorus

by Dominique Rossi

Salt Chorus leads readers on an evocative journey ranging from deep in a garden to out in the cosmos. In her poetry debut, Dominique Rossi weaves haunting imagery to honor connections between humans and wilderness. Rossi explores themes including trauma, identity, and resilience with grace and reverence.

“In this collection, Dominique Rossi conjures up the beauty and heartache present in the natural world. Rossi showcases the work of survival and the vulnerability of the human body. These poems are daughter songs that magnify the mundane and spectacular in the most glorious ways”. -Casandra López, Author of Brother Bullet

"Salt Chorus is a stunning debut collection by Rossi. Covering themes from chronic illness to love to anxiety with vivid and distinct imagery, you are bound to find familiarity in the stories on every page." -Shelby Leigh, Author of changing with the tides

“Salt Chorus is the song of the natural world, the salt of existence and tears.

Then I see the great mountain looming
like a god over the paper birch and balsam poplar.
There’s a grizzly slowly shuffling through the taiga,
headed to the streams where sockeye spawn then
lay their ravaged fins to rest.

I pull my desiccated limbs to the trailhead.
Breathe in the geranium and lupine.
This is me in my body.
Carrying onward.

-From 'Denali', Salt Chorus"

-Bob McAfee, Author of Love Songs

51 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 7, 2022

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Salt Chorus was a beautifully written collection of poems that invoked many emotions. This book is a short read, but the depths and imagery presented in it made me take the time to savor and ponder each poem. Using vivid imagery of the natural world, Rossi weaves in topics of trauma, loss, love, identity, mental illness, and climate, which, as a nature lover, hit right in the feels. Definitely a must-read!

[Elizabeth Wilder · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short but unflinching collection

The poems of Salt Chorus are an unflinching critique of climate change, capitalism, and domestic violence woven with beautiful imagery of the natural world. I appreciate Rossi’s realness in tackling these charged topics. I look forward to seeing what she creates next.

[Curtis Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

The poems in this book range from the cosmic to the deeply personal. Worth reading and rereading.

[Alexandra Vincent · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so poetic! The authors word choice paints the imagery so well. I found a lot of poems I could relate to and that is an important thing to nail down when creating a book. I can't wait to read more from this author!