Still
Sandra Meek

Still re-imagines the Renaissance concept of the studiolo, a room displaying cabinets of wonder, each juxtaposing human-made art objects, such as miniature still-life paintings, with natural ones—harbingers of the coming wonders and catastrophes of travel brought back from distant lands Europeans claimed as “discoveries.”

These poems shimmer with the wonders of the natural and aesthetic worlds—and in doing so, reckon with environmental, colonial, and sexual violence, with the oppression of silencing as well as the reclamation of voice. In confronting violations of body, family, culture, and nature, Still gives voice and image not only to what is still, what has been stilled, and what is in danger of being forever stilled, but also to the marvel of survival.

“These gorgeous and very smart poems ‘measure the heart by obsession,’ measure our days by music, measure understanding by mysteries”
—Ilya Kaminsky

“Sandra Meek is a poet whose work becomes more and more insightful and… more and more necessary.”
—Jericho Brown

Sandra Meek is the author of five previous books of poetry, most recently An Ecology of Elsewhere. Meek is Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at Berry College, and lives in Rome, Georgia.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.50) / ISBN 978-0-89255-505-5 / 88 pages / Poetry