Drewes, Steffi: Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow

Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow by Steffi Drewes (Kelsey Street Press, paperback) Publication Date: October 1, 2016 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. TELL ME EVERY ANCHOR EVERY ARROW traces simultaneous trajectories on a map that takes shape in real time: relationships, conversations, dream worlds, daily minutiae, and natural phenomena shift against a vivid panorama, spanning subways, Pacific coastlines, and desert highways. Here, a horizon line is not merely a vista, but an urgent, incantatory text resonant with the textures of smoke curls, ant colonies, and stale gum. Together, these nautical odes, anti-pastoral narratives, philosophical inquiries, and epistolary postcards present a kaleidoscopic travelogue exploring human connection and self-determination."This is one of the most exuberant debuts I've ever read. Precious few poets go so undaunted by the extravagant plastic possibilities of syntax; fewer still so readily measure their lines 'in thumbprints or dumplings/in trees not plant