Salt Body Shimmer

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lyrical and rife with utterance </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Salt Body Shimmer</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> asks of the violence we inherit: who speaks from the threshold throat inside the dark's dark? Interior driven and intimately political the poems in this stunning debut coax and trouble form traversing the landscape of trauma and survival with a deft musicality of time family and slippery memory. At the intersections of race class gender and sexuality Foreman makes a song of the body-it's howl and jubilation-and invites us to confront our interior lives in the listening. Bold in its quest for knowledge and refuge </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Salt Body Shimmer</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> articulates a contemporary American experience aware of the histories unsaid and unfaced where women can inhabit their lives fully and freely knowing safety is fragile and must be grabbed by whatever thread we can find.</span></p>