valerie witte

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE!

A Rupture in the Interiors, from Airlie Press

Polyphony of silk and skin, A Rupture in the Interiors is a rapturous exploration of im/perfection, threading innovative form and histories of value—of the female body, especially, and of material worth—with dream logic and associative mastery. This is a modern tapestry of everyday traumas that, while seemingly minor, mark us all as participants in the human experience. Woven together, these images of disorder and defect tell a story of the superficial damage that runs deep, and that cannot slip from us unseen or unfelt.

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Reviews

Review by Jami Macarty in New Pages: “Witte’s poems, ‘assembled / [by] a recruitment of parts,’ turn as ‘a woman’s wheel turned… / never failing,’ ‘treating the wounded’ in ‘a bewilderment / process / called / reckoning,’ making A Rupture in the Interiors a moving and permeating read.”

From rob mclennan’s blog: “Witte’s lyric is knitted, stitched; a lyric that plays not simply with threading as imagery and content but as structure, and her threads are myriad, almost polyphonic and multi-directional, writing on perception and the body, and the very idea of what holds, however precarious it might sometimes seem, everything together.”

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