How Long She'll Last in This World

by Maria Melendez and Maria Melendez Kelson

Let go your keys, let go your gun, let go your good pen and your rings, let your wolf mask go and kiss goodbye your goddess figurine. With this invocation, Mar a Mel ndez beckons us on a journey--an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816525153
• ISBN13: 9780816525157
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An articulate and engaging collection of remarkable poetry by Maria Melendez

How Long She'll Last In This World is an articulate and engaging collection of remarkable poetry by Maria Melendez. Drawing from her expansive knowledge of the environment and biology, Melendez creates poetry which induces muse and highlights the spirit as it carries its readers through a creative and evocative philosophy. American Adhaan (October 2001): Watch night spilling on the western edge/of invisible, its cool surrender/to the peach-colored clouds (just water/that has lately collapsed/into form).//How violently natural/my petroliferous valley looks/in this faint, blue wash;/the slow, arc'd strokes/of a great egret's wings/deny the crude thickness/of this air.//The shattered world's particulates/fall everywhere around us;/the call to prayer means bowing/and facing them all.