Chapbook
Water in Three Acts
Handbound in a limited edition
Publication Date: November 15, 2020
Poetry · 32 pages · 5 x 7.25
ISBN: 978-1-7346512-1-8
To order:
$12.99 Print + E-book
$11.99 Print Only
$2.99 E-book only
$14.99 Book Launch Edition
(signed w/a unique,
numbered mini poem)
Selected as part of the Emerging Poets Chapbook Series
Handbound in a limited edition
Cover: French Paper, construction, tile green, 65#
Interior: Neenah, classic crest text, 80#
Cover and interior designed by LK James
Edited by Levis Keltner
About the Book
Knocking over a glass of water — a simple act begins a three-act play. Here, poetry is liquid, taking the shape of its container as concrete poetry, dramatic verse, prose poetry, and open verse. Body and planet, utterance and song — the poem-sequence mirrors the quandary of a human in the Anthropocene, a cataclysmic speck of dust in geologic time. Water in Three Acts chooses to respect peril, manifesting an operatic shipwreck, bells to ladle snow, and improvised songs to scintillate newborn bacteria. Not through the looking glass, but through the spilled glass.
Praise
“The language of Anna Morrison's stunning debut chapbook ‘builds and builds and builds’ until we are submerged in an entirely new world, one where foam speaks, where water comes alive in its containment, where the hum and hush of the early universe is given its own song. Water in Three Acts is profoundly destabilizing and, thereby, utterly transformative. The voices here feel conjured from a deep communion with the sea, vapors, and water-winds that existed before recorded historical time. I felt my language break up and yield as I communed with the energies and images ushered in by these powerful poems. With each line, we are asked to surf and navigate the waves of a singular poetic vision. This chapbook will transform your relationship with the life-giving and death-giving substance we call water.”
— Brynn Saito, author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure
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