Sacrificial Metal
Sacrificial Metal
Sacrificial Metal
By Esther Lee
March 25, 2020 • 6 x 9 • x 96 pages • 978-1-7336020-2-0
In her second poetry collection Sacrificial Metal, Esther Lee’s poems offer a meditation through the lens of dance and human movement about the quiet dignities and alienation of illness, caregiving, and living in a racialized body. Part documentary poetics, part mourning diary, part textual choreography, and part nautical-inspired elegy, the poems in Sacrificial Metal serve as inquiries about how we may become socialized or exiled from a community, along with how movement and dance offer possibilities of interconnectedness with one’s own body and a sense of collective identity.
Esther Lee
Hailing from the American South, Esther Lee lives on a 35’ sailboat with her artist husband, Michael, and their cat, Bowie. A Kundiman fellow, she is the author of the chapbook, Blank Missives, (Trafficker Press) and her debut poetry collection, Spit, which received the Elixir Press Poetry Prize and nominations for the PEN Open Book Award and Pushcart Prizes. Her writing and collaborations with visual artists have appeared in multiple literary magazines and anthologies. You can read more about her mischief at estherlee.io and wayfindersnow.com.