Word-Made World

$19.00

By Chee Brossy

What a book of love and praise this is! Chee Brossy’s latest, Word-Made World, offers poems that “sing with the sweat of our bodies, our labored breath.” This book sings for the beautiful in struggle, even as “[i]ndifference is the driving force, / the framework of all life.” It is a kind of guidebook drafted from humility and wisdom, with poems that clearly see “evolution and the Holy Beings, / the sobering depths, festering wounds of history, / and the joy in applying the enemy’s language.” In a world of terabytes and AI and information overload, Brossy’s work remains steady and unhurried, a meditation in verse that implores us “to rise, scrape your crusted eyes, / gather fuel, make a fire.” —Brian Turner, author of The Wild Delight of Wild Things

About Chee Brossy

Chee Brossy is the author of the poetry collection, The Strings Are Lightning and Hold You In, from Tupelo Press, the chapbook, Burntwater, from Finishing Line Press, and the novella, Fighters, from Texas Review Press. His poetry and fiction have appeared in the Southern Indiana Review, Malahat Review, Narrative Magazine, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. He holds a degree in English from Dartmouth College. He is a member of the Navajo Nation.

Praise for Word-Made World

These poems exude a deep respect for language, land, and cultural belonging, illuminating our ephemeral word-made worlds. Brossy writes with piercing lyricism through the consequences of our disconnection from earth and from each other. Reading these poems, I am reminded and returned to how beautiful, how powerful, this earth is, this earth that still remembers us, and how important it is that we respond, in relationship, with reverence. —Jennifer Elise Foerster, author of The Maybe-Bird