Publisher's Synopsis
Testament bears witness to traumas-cultural, personal, and spiritual-as well as moments of revelatory transport. While the catalyzing tragedies and dilemmas are never out of mind, these nuanced poems maintain faith in the act of speaking as a pathway through despair and toward transformation.
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From "Perspective"
And where does your desire for immortality fit in a cosmos predicated on loss?
(Gain, too-but not for you.)
Better to commit yourself to decay, try to find beauty in it. And if you can't,
it may at least seem beautiful to another, far away.
