The Rattle Egg

by Terri Witek

Is the egg obvious? Witek's visual text candles language in this volume of discovery, overjoyed and overwhelmed by the maps that link body and vocabulary through egg and ova. Behind this text is a poet with two mother tongues, playing between Portuguese and English with skill and beauty-yoking words. These poems know that hatchlings imprint on their caretaker, but the tether is mutual. Just as the ovum, and the fetus it later becomes, leaves behind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646626958
• ISBN13: 9781646626953
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"