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Description: Publications by poet & publisher Tayve Neese: Blood to Fruit, Locust, "Neese writes, The ground will swallow you because it is hungry. That's about right. Something reckless about these poems; something wild and awful. And something utterly beautiful too." -Ross Gay "Fierce and unsettling, the poems in Blood to Fruit are filled with primal grief and a powerful drive toward life that spans many times and places. The landscape is one of scarcity but with recurring images of womanhood and fertility..." -Joan
Home About Events More Home About Events Home About Events Tayve Neese Poet & Editor Tayve Neese Poet & Editor Tayve Neese Poet & Editor Tayve Neese Poet & Editor evolution psalms "Unsparingly personal and objectively incisive, Tayve Neese’s poems reverberate with the disintegration, on the one hand, of a marriage, on the other, of our planet as, indifferent to our bequest, to all that is sacred, we stagger toward extinction. The poet’s registers echo those of “The Tui of New Zealand,” which “has two voice
-Bhisham Bherwani, author of The Second Night of the Spirt and The Circling Canopy
"Tayve Neese’s Evolution Psalms are, indeed, poetic praises to nature’s evolving creatures in all their glory. However, this collection could also be named “The Psalmist’s Evolution.” Instead of crying out to the silence of King David’s patriarchal God that has deserted him in the Old Testament, these psalms find a holy presence in the “gaseous beckon” of a “vibrating star” that “gives some direction,” in a “baby whale thinking [a] yacht its mother,” and in a “sea snail egg [that] “grew and hatched inside a
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