This is a collection you will want to keep close, ‘a reminder to begin, again, by listening carefully with the body’s rapt attention." - Ellen Bassĭanusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), and Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series, 2020). In melodic and sumptuous lines, she considers desire, sorrow, beauty and death. "Bonfire Opera, Danusha Lameris’ ravishing second collection of poems, lives up to its title and then some. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of the road. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. On Bonfire Opera: Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. She is a member of The Hive Poetry Collective, which produces podcasts and radio shows, and she facilitates online workshops with poets from all over the United States and Canada. Her poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Poetry Daily, Narrative, New Ohio Review, The Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Journal of American Poetry, Rattle, The Sun, and other literary journals and anthologies.
Ghost Dogs gives a summation of a life, with the poet finding wells of emotion in the most unlikely places.There is such a fierce appetite in this book, a hunger for the depths and heights of human experience, described with abandon mixed with great refinement.” - Zach Rogowĭion O’Reilly’s prize-winning book, Ghost Dogs, was published in February 2020 by Terrapin Books. “The poems touch every sense, her metaphors are strikingly original. O'Reilly's Ghost Dogs takes us to Alaska, the burn ward, the not-so-distant past. These poems dole out humor, surprise, and pathos in equal measure.
On Ghost Dogs: A coastal California ranch, a house full of mastiffs, a white hawk, a young woman running naked through the neighborhood at night. Join us on Zoom as we continue to celebrate Poetry Month with two fantastic poets!
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