Outside, America Kim La Fave and the words are derived

and the words are derived from our history

ISBN: 9780889712447

the ferocity of Kathy Acker and Sylvia Plath

but something about its way of noticing

Short-listed ReLit Award (Poetry) (2022)

Outside, America Kim La Fave and the words are derivedDescription Outside, America criss crosses the CanadianAmerican border to understand dilemmas that occur across a variety of scales, from global spheres to the most intimate domestic spaces. Sarah de Leeuw digs through grief, loss, aging, technological frustration, environmental degradation, nationalism and confusion to grasp the state of the world. These poems are tethered to everything from climate change and scientific discovery to the death of