(at) Wrist

Tacey M. Atsitty, DinÉ (Navajo), is TsÉnahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People). The recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, Atsitty is an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets fellow and holds degrees from Brigham Young University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Cornell University. The author of Rain Scald, she is the director of the Navajo Film Festival, a member of the Advisory Board for BYU’s Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and a board member for Lightscatter Press. Atsitty is a PhD student in creative writing at Florida State University.

As formally seductive as it is subversive, Tacey Atsitty’s (At) Wrist is a poetry of deep longing and praise, of loss and the courage of resilience. Anchored in an intimate vision of connectedness, her syntax works its way beyond thought’s limit, setting its hook in the terrain of memory and dream. This is a book I will return to for what no other poet I know delivers with such daring and vulnerability, a poetry wherein time, body, and the natural world are presented as a singularity otherwise known as love." - James Kimbrell

• A February SnowSonnet for My WristBird DanceRound Our WristsOut of StarSang OverChafeApricot LamentHole through the RockQuerido ApuLace SonnetStill Life MorrowRiver SiltThe Night My Wrist BrokeLast Night, BleedingA Blood LettingOn InnocenceWhen It Was TimeScaling the BlackIt’s Hard to Write a Love Poem WhenCandy Dish SonnetInto RainOf RibbonThe WarblerNight Portrait with Cannon FirePollenbackPortrait of a Gray Room) (LacingAcknowledgments