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Offerings to a Tumbled Temple
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.95
Publisher: Purple Ink Press
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Offerings to a Tumbled Temple by Leticia Urieta is an arresting, lyrical meditation on illness, embodiment, loss, and devotion. In this stunning poetry collection, Urieta transforms the lived experience of chronic pain and healing into ritual, language, and myth. The body-both sacred and wounded-becomes the site of prayer and reckoning. Through altars built of blood, memory, and tenderness, these poems offer not only lamentation but also fierce reclamation: the body as temple, tumbled yet enduring.
Structured as a series of offerings, invocations, and spells, the collection moves through landscapes of grief, motherhood, and survival. In poems like Altar, A Year of Offerings to the Body, and The Graveyard of Good Health, the speaker communes with ancestors, lost pregnancies, and the intimate pain of chronic illness. Urieta's language is both sacred and visceral-obsidian blades, jars of trapped words, and the pulse of a beating heart blur the boundaries between spiritual and corporeal worlds. Each poem becomes a form of ceremony, an act of remembering, of rebuilding faith in a body that has endured.
Drawing inspiration from chronic illness narratives, feminist and Latinx traditions, and writers such as Sonya Huber, Ada Limón, and Torrin A. Greathouse, Urieta writes toward radical acceptance and reclamation. Offerings to a Tumbled Temple is a testament to survival and love in all its painful, luminous forms-a book that insists on the holiness of imperfection and the beauty of the body's resilience.
At once elegy and prayer, this collection invites readers to bow before the broken and find divinity in what remains. Urieta's voice is intimate, haunting, and fiercely compassionate-a guide for anyone seeking to reconnect to the body's wisdom, to grief's strange grace, and to the sacred art of living through pain.
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