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Territorial explores the bargains that women make to stay safe from violence. Set in a landscape of looming ecological ruin, the poems bear witness to the effects of drought on the California chaparral region and delve into difficult personal terrain to reveal patterns of abuse we inflict on the earth and each other. How can we emerge from a devastated landscape into a sense of healing and repair? Using the characteristics of violence-repetition and escalation-the collection connects subjects that range from the dawn of recorded sound to the mapping of myths onto constellations, the ecosystem of a leach pond, and the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz. In tracing the ways narratives of predation imprint onto the body, memory, environment, and future generations, Territorial finds resilience in the powers of language to reshape experience.
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"Every poem in Territorial is stunning-each spun fiercely with beauty as well as tremors of perpetual threat and violence against the female body. Mira 'in Russian / it turns out means World, / so there are countless maps / of me & my confessions / in a language I can't read.' Indeed, every poem in Territorial is a 'Mira'-each a mirror-map that precisely locates precarious bodies across terrains o
Don Mee Choi, author of DMZ Colony
"A work of narrative beauty and lyrical depth, Mira Rosenthal's Territorial mines through a lush and sensual life for deep emotion and ardent language. Through the examination of the violence and the delight of the quotidian, the poet brings forth an unnerving reckoning, exposing the anxieties and complexities of her generation. Swept away by searching imagination, Rosenthal stays grounded in the
Valzhyna Mort, author of Music for the Dead and Resurrected
"Rosenthal wonders how a woman can survive in the midst of so much desiccation. How to recognize connection when being uprooted or rendered. This is the kind of work a reader longs for. A book we believe. Sensual, frightening, richly wrought and balanced, Territorial holds no truisms, no aphorisms. The nuances of person and place are expertly exposed. There is tenderness, yes, but it roots alongsi
Vievee Francis, author of Forest Primeval
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