Relief Map - Paperback

by Erin M. Bertram (Author)

In an extended sequence of prose poems, Relief Mapuses etymology to navigate eros-turned-longtime partnership. Entries range from "Vulnerability" to "Fire" to "Salt," interspersed with meditations on topics including the subjunctive mood and documentary studies. Here, the terrain of the Midwest--and of the beloved's body--offer maps with which to chart the profound fact of love in the everyday, fully aware of the possibility of losing it. Dictionary-like in approach and lyric in effect, Relief Map is a sort-of secular book of hours, exploring what it means to make a life with another person and mean it.