Dissolve

Dissolve

<p>“Bitsui’s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.” ―<em>Library Journal</em></p><p>Drawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, <em>Dissolve</em> is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century’s most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.</p><p><strong>From “(Untitled)”:</strong></p><p><em>. . . Jeweled with houseflies, <br>leather rattles, foil-wrapped, <br>ferment in beaked masks<br /><br /><br>on the shores of evaporating lakes.<br>This plot, now a hotel garden, <br>its fountain gushing forth―<br>the slashed wrists of the Colorado River.</em></p><p><strong>Sherwin Bitsui </strong>was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them <em>Flood Song</em>, which won an American Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona where he has serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts.</p>