The Ghost Assembly Line by Sarah Sala (NWVS, #121)

$14.49

 

Sarah Sala’s collection is full of sly and beautiful poems. Startling and exploratory, her voice is completely unique, and her vision blazes in every line. This is important new poetry by a poet of genuine talent.

–Laura Kasischke 

 

THE GHOST ASSEMBLY LINE does a lot in just a few poems. I love how present the past is in this collection – family history, a city’s history, and the small painful moments from a life are celebrated alongside quotidian concerns, or a lover’s body. Intimate and public spaces fill this collection and the effect is dizzying in the best way. It reminds us that poems are the place where everything happens at once.

–Matthew Rohrer 

 

Sarah Sala’s work goes beyond our everyday use of a word like catharsis to its older definition, a purgation. It is urgent, and yet, in the many faces of violation here, there is a voice that wants to make us safe, and it does this by presenting America with its own broken surface. These poems burst from the seed of Yeats’s terrible beauty. They brandish themselves on blank space, praise what negation does to desire, and shiver gorgeously with rare kindness. In their gleam, we see splendor, outrage, and “a torrential downpour into nothingness.

–Natalie Eilbert

 

 

 

 

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The Ghost Assembly Line

by Sarah Sala  (New Women’s Voices Series, No. 121)

$14.49, paper

SARAH M. SALA is a poet, educator, and native Michigander. She is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020) and The Ghost Assembly Line (Finishing Line Press 2016). Her poem “Hydrogen” was featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR’s hit show Radiolab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition.

She is the founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and Co-Poetry editor with Jen Hyde at the Bellevue Literary Review. Sarah was a founding editor at The Oleander Review, International Editor for Washington Square Review, manuscript screener for Alice James Books, and poetry reader for Epiphany Magazine.

Sarah’s awards and honors include: the 2019 Lorene Pouncey Award, an Academy of American Poets University & College Prize, the Marjorie Rapport Award for Poetry, an Avery Hopwood Award for Nonfiction, and a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New York University in 2012. She is a 2019 Poets House Fellow, as well as a 2016 & 2018 Home School Fellow. Her work appears in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southampton Review, and The Stockholm Review of Literature, among others. Sarah is a language lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Write to her at sarahmariesala@gmail.com.

 

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