Alt-Nature

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Alt-Naturemoves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest.

These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love.

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Praise for Feeling Upon Arrival:

Entropy, "Best Poetry Books of 2018"

"The precision of language in Feeling Upon Arrival seems to feint, only to land the blow elsewhere. In this text, the language of theory takes on the character of a metaphysics--I think that's what the feint is about. It is a good and hungry almost finding itself in the speaker's body." --Douglas Kearney

"Morgan's poetic voice is gorgeous and I am greedy for more." --Despy Boutris, The West Review

Praise for Saretta Morgan:

"Saretta Morgan's work doesn't simply continue any one mode of writing, but works to permutate the orderings, genres, and possibilities for how text can function." --John Rufo, Ploughshares

Author Bio

Saretta Morgan's work engages the affective afterlife of militarization, incarceration, and US Imperialism, particularly as they're lived out through a Black queer femme body and attention to practices of land. She lives on Akimel O'odham lands in Phoenix, AZ.