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A Ways Away

9781629223254
77 pages
University of Akron Press
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Overview

A searching poetry collection about bodies, ecological grief, and the systems that shape both, A Ways Away moves between the intimate and the catastrophic, finding the personal entangled with the political.

A Ways Away unfolds in three raw movements, turning from the everyday horrors of life to the natural world and back again. These poems trace the connections between social death, politicized medicine, bodily autonomy, and environmental degradation.

Through the lens of fractured logic during COVID year zero, A Ways Away examines what happens when the structures meant to sustain us become sources of harm—and Languell reminds us precisely what it means to remain attentive to the living world amid that damage. These poems have dirt under their fingernails.
Author Bio
Krystal Languell lives in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry collections: Quite Apart (2019), Gray Market (2016), Call the Catastrophists (2011), and most recently Systems Thinking with Flowers (2022), selected by Rae Armantrout as the winner of the first Fonograf Editions book contest. She works for a nonprofit in the suburbs and in her unpaid time participates in dynamic resource mobilization with and for her neighbors. Since 2010, she has helped guide the activity of Belladonna* Collaborative and, as Bone Bouquet, she sometimes acts as a publisher.

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