Heliotropic by Doug Bootes

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Heliotropic is a collection of poems from the littoral. Bootes’ poems originate between the Gulf Coast and the dry inland seas of high desert. Their sound blooms in the poetic ear like seeds from “the blown apart shattered.” A poet of milkweed, latex glyphs, roadrunners, and settler green tentacles. With a perfect ear, Bootes chooses words that move our sensory boats to the place “our discordant coastlines migrate.” Heliotropic is a gift for your mind.

–James Thomas Stevens, author of The Golden Book and A Bridge Dead in the Water.

 

If you’ve ever held a broken-winged bird that’s fallen from its nest, fed it cornmeal mush and nursed it to health. Waited for it to fly, then waited for its return. Listened for its songs of history through wind, where Kentucky blue grass grows, and all the other places it’s been.

That’s what these poems do. Breakneck and tenderly.

Forget all your prayers and open your palms.

–Karen Vargas, Taos Author

 

 

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Heliotropic

by Doug Bootes

Paper

List: $17.99

979-8-88838-535-7

2024

Thought provoking and heartfelt, Heliotropic offers a working nomad’s lyrical meditations on the littoral regions of the southern US. Coast to coast, sea-level to high desert; from a barrier island’s shore, the trail, or from the interstate, these poems explore the intersectionality over time of cultures, geography, and language. Rooted in Appalachia, the poet’s voice elevates sound over meaning, allowing the individual reader to experience their own unique imagery and self-determined meaning while exploring the inner and outer realms we together inhabit. In the kind and inimitable words of James Stevens – “With a perfect ear, Bootes chooses words that move our sensory boats to the place ‘our discordant coastlines migrate.’ Heliotropic is a gift for your mind.”

Born in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, Doug Bootes currently lives in New Mexico and teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. His work has most recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, On the Run Contemporary Flash Fiction, The New Limestone Review, The Closed Eye Open: Maya’s Micros, The Santa Fe Reporter and the futurism anthology Into the Unknown, Together.

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