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The Next Sky
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.00
ISBN13: 9781556597336
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Praise for The Next Sky
Bitsui delivers a dense and intensely lyrical fourth collection interweaving the elemental body and myth. In the title sequence, Bitsui's lines articulate the 'meat-fragrant slits/ in our speech patterns, ' invoking the Coyote trickster god of Navajo mythology along with the terrestrial animal, 'eyeholes punctured/ with coyote teeth.' The volume is uniquely arranged: the primordial, expressionistic long title poem is followed by four shorter, more narrative lyrics. . . . Bitsui balances eschatological vision with moments of intimacy and memorable music, as when a mother ('Amá') is described bathing 'her naked son . . . his glistening/ brown back; oil-black/ slick hair pressed flat.' . . . The book shimmers with imagistic intensity. It's an enduring achievement.--Publishers Weekly
In The Next Sky (Copper Canyon, Fall), Diné poet Sherwin Bitsui engages intimately, almost spiritually, with the landscape. . . .--Library Journal
Praise for Sherwin Bitsui
Bitsui's poetry is elegant, probative and original. His vision connects worlds.--New Mexico Magazine
His images can tilt on the side of surrealism, yet his work can be compellingly accessible.--Arizona Daily Star
His poems are wide and deep arroyos and mesas of human perception, conceptual word paintings born of agony and joy.--Joy Harjo
Bitsui's poetry highlights a difference between how it may be read inside and outside of Native American communities. 'Non-Indigenous readers are permitted, even invited, to read such poetry, ' Reed says, 'only to have the fullness of its meaning withheld.--Pleiades
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