Blade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief loss and discovery set against the California wildernessDanusha Lamamp233eacuteriss third book Blade by Blade is a book of hungers Hunger for the bright glare of poppies for the hidden name of the beloved for the cracked continental edge for all we keep in quotthe heartamp8217s farthest chambersquot Seeking a way back to joy following the deaths of her son and brother the poet finds wonder in the furred legs of a caterpillar in egrets elephants and elk solace in the seagullamp8217s speckled egg Here we taste a longing to kiss in the dark corner of the gym to leap into a volcanoamp8217s molten fire to be unraveled undone thread by thread made one with all things Microscopic and tidal earthquake and fireprone Blade by Blade thrives in the underbrush of human emotion These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to reenter the world weamp8217ve forsaken to set foot as if for the first time on the green earth and begin again
