Comfort

by Sarah Heady

In Comfort, Sarah Heady dares to uncover a poetics of domesticity that is vibrant with sensuality, texture, and mystery—where the mundane life of details becomes a world pulsing with pleasures, dangers, and questions of embodiment and the deep interior. Drawing compellingly on found text and histories of rural America, Heady casts a rapturous spell dug up from the past, conjuring formidable incantations of the everyday

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2022

About the author

Sarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place, history, and the built environment. She is the author of Comfort (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Corduroy Road (dancing girl, 2021), and Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills, 2013). She is also the librettist of Halcyon, a new opera about the death and life of a women’s college. Sarah is the recipient of residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, In Cahoots, Bethany Arts Community, and Art Farm. Raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, she lives in San Francisco, where she co-edits Drop Leaf Press, a small women-run poetry collective. More at sarahheady.com.