Blade by Blade

Praise for Blade by Blade “Blade by Blade by Danusha Laméris refuses grief as isolated by either time or place, with grace and thunder. The losses of both a brother and a son, two men remembered well, lead to winding and repeated meetings of earth and self. With the observation of Richard Powers and the casual brilliance of Gwendolyn Brooks, the book angles toward each and every subject and environment equally. The calmness with which the speaker catalogs what is gone due to environmental catastrophe and suicide provides a wide lens—not with distance, but specificity. The admirable volume brings on a new style for Lameris, making her poems utterly recognizable.""—Poetry Northwest Praise for Danusha Laméris “Danusha Laméris writes with definitive, savoring power in perfectly well-weighted lines and scenes.”—Naomi Shihab Nye “Danusha Laméris’ ravishing second collection of poems, lives up to its title and then some. In melodic and sumptuous lines, she considers desire, sorrow, beauty and death.”—Ellen Bass “Reckoning with and grieving for the past as they claim the future, these poems are wise, direct, and fearless.”—Dorianne Laux “Laméris explores a woman’s experience, shaping its timeless (and often neglected) mysteries into song.”—Poetry Flash “These poems are sensuous and lyrical; the poet is passionately present in the fleeting moment 'listening carefully with the body's rapt attention.'”—The San Bernardino Sun