cover is split horizontally into two parts, close to the center. The upper part shows an opening in dark woods onto a full moon. The lower part shows a barefoot figure (neck down, her head seemingly covered by the upper image) standing to the left of the title (big, white cursive lettering). She (probably) has long braids and wears a white nightshift, her torso partially hidden behind oak branches. She holds a flame in both hands. A black bird sits to her right on the ground. The entire cover is the color palette of night.
On Loss
When the stopped. When the vanished. Like a dream—the violence of its ending, the absence of narrative. There was no language. In the body, the mind, a mouth. Agape. I tried to write and every word foundered. Agony—I saw it. The dark inside, which I was and was not. The undone undid me. All night the leaving came.
"In the body, the mind, a mouth. Agape."
On Loss in Leila Chatti's Wildness Before Something Sublime (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, 2025).
What a book!!!!!! 💖✨💖
PS: #comma
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