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Politics
This isn’t new politics like poetry it takes the very old and sits her down at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee maybe it is night and babies are sleeping after a day that wouldn’t quit maybe it is before dawn and someone is gone never to come back maybe it is cloudy and a small lamp lends light to her hands maybe it is sunny and birds at the feeder give them something to look at when words are slow in this conversation between women and when you refill the coffee you don’t need to be a leader when you drink you don’t need to follow because each body is equal in the swallow and we take turns serving and being served and this is the essence of this politics nothing is fixed and when it’s time we all get up to do the dishes. -from Tongues in Trees by Cassie Premo Steele |
Tongues in Trees | Poetry 1994-2017 is about revolution, both personal and political, and this collection shows the long arc of poetic ferocity that has often been overshadowed by the more nurturing contours of Cassie Premo Steele's writing.
This new volume contains all her previously published poems from journals and anthologies since 1994, plus brand new poems. Consciously responding to this historical moment in which we are being asked to stand up and #resist and make our voices heard, these poems are fiercely allied with intersectional feminist and environmental movements. |