In This Distance: Poems Volume 39 - Paperback

by Brooke Sahni (Author)

In This Distance examines the relationship between distance and desire, the erotic and the ecstatic, pleasure and paradise. Esther Perel, Audre Lorde and the biblical figure of Eve co-exist in this collection, offering their real and imagined insight as the speaker grapples with questions such as: do we need distance in order to maintain desire? Where is paradise? What constitutes an Eden?

Author Biography

BROOKE SAHNI is the author of Before I Had the Word (TRP, 2021), which won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly, Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, 32 Poems, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona.