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Oregon is thought to have been a Native American word for “beautiful waters.” In these poems, the landscapes of the nation and state are seen through the eyes of a woman in love. On her honeymoon with her new wife, the poet takes readers with her on a journey through the element of water as a representation of our heart’s deepest natural powers: vulnerability, intimacy, and renewal.
Beautiful Waters takes readers on a honeymoon through the landscape of Oregon and into the visions and history that this landscape reveals: the courage of women in a cloud, an old woman’s face in the wrinkled earth, God as a waiter on a reservation. With the intense precision of short lines and clipped sentences, these poems come together to form a travel narrative in the voice of a newly married woman who is attuned to all of the beauty and tension that belong to this place.
-Katie Manning, Founding Editor of Whale Road Review
Cassie Premo Steele mesmerizes with language that ‘ripples of green blood’ as she maps the ‘badlands’ of love, taking us on a voyage through history, matriarchy, the body, ‘surf crashing in like a diagnosis.’ Beautiful Waters is a sensual landscape without boundaries that imprints itself in the flesh and the psyche. Steele permeates mastery of the visceral and unforgettable through her work.
–Meg Tuite, author of Lined Up Like Scars
Beautiful Waters
by Cassie Premo Steele
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-108-9
2017
Cassie Premo Steele is the author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and she was a TEDx speaker on the theme of “Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning.” She has been a columnist for Literary Mama and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She lives with her wife and daughter in Columbia, South Carolina.
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