Soil by Maja Zmyslowski

$16.99

 

The poems in Soil spoil the ear as much as the heart as they grow, and, grow they do, fistful by fistful thickening down into sediment. Maja Zmyslowski’s poems take us from ocean to loss, from desert to rebirth, from scalpel to volcanic ash in a collection where “each inhale is a cradlesong.” These poems rejoice in heritage, landscape, and home while revealing the unexpected nuance of what makes us most human. It is this attention to detail, Zmyslowski’s ability to elevate the smallest things, which reveals the strength of the arc: each poem has its own capacity to uncover, which is to say that these poems dig-up treasure. They are relentless as dust.

–Josh Rathkamp, author of “A Storm to Close the Door

 

“It is rare for a voice – any voice – to punch through the noisiness of this world, but that is just what Maja Zmyslowski has done with Soil. Her poems shut us up in beautifully agonizing ways, and we are compelled into quiet consideration of what she has pulled from herself, brought roaring into this world, and given over to us.”

–Jeremy Broyles, author of “What Becomes of Ours

 

 

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Soil

by Maja 

$16.99, paper

978-1-64662-312-9

2020

Soil is a jagged journey through bewildering loss of love, of self, and of motherhood. It explores a woman’s roots, the relationships that warp and form her, and the bounty that inevitably blooms when she stops tugging at those roots. Dig, bury, seed, unearth, and reap. Bring a shovel. 

Maja Malgorzata Zmyslowski is an award-winning writer born in Poland, grown in California and matured in Arizona, harboring dreams of casting an anchor into the forests of the Pacific Northwest. When she’s not longing for snow and working on her novel, she’s flirting with the summer monsoons, wondering what kind of tea to make. Her poems have appeared in North American Review, Mid-American Review, The Briar Cliff Review and Reed Magazine. Her flash fiction and other work can also be found online and at www.majazmyslowski.com.

 

 

 

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