out takes/ glove box

Eduardo Corral selected this compelling collection by Maya Jewell-Zeller to receive the New American Poetry Prize. "In out takes/ glove box, the speaker thinks beautifully through the shifting sands of mothering and tracks the body as it spirals through time. The language is dazzling. We're privy to a 'vermillion funeral' and learn an astonishing thing, '[t] he square root of whiskey is water.' Intimacy, here, includes the natural world. Animals and plants are tended to, torn into, and observed with an enviable capacity to render them mythic, tangible. These poems are spellbinding-read them out loud to experience their full power."- EDUARDO CORRAL, author of Slow Lightning and Guillotine"Maya Jewell Zeller's poems bite back. In lush, lyrical lines, she describes the sensuality of the natural world and the blistering challenge-dream of motherhood and cishet marriage. The contrast between freedom found in nature, in friendship, in solitude; and the weight of social expectations unravels at the touch of a body (of work) so expansive it lends its blood to make new hearts. Throughout this collection, poems morph from roots to trunks to dandelions blown, softness scattered across the field: 'I want / to share this square of blue. Let's fuck/ up the room.' These are courageous, captivating poems by a poet unafraid to tell the truth about her life."- CAROL GUESS, author of Book of Non and Sleep Tight Satellite

• | Author: Maya Jewell-Zeller
• | Publisher: New American Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 92 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1941561314
• | ISBN-13: 9781941561317