A Pretty Little Wilderness
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In this time of family separation and prisons for profit, Cassandra Dallett has transformed her personal trauma into a brilliant artistic argument for decarceration. Of California's prisoner-firefighters, she writes, "when the fall is dry, hot,/ windy, and desperate/they throw poor and brown bodies/ at the flames/ like they always have." A love letter for an imprisoned partner, a scathing indictment of racism, and a source of infinite beauty, A Pretty Little Wilderness is another devastating, gorgeous triumph by one of the hottest poets in the San Francisco Bay Area. If Oakland were to create ...
In this time of family separation and prisons for profit, Cassandra Dallett has transformed her personal trauma into a brilliant artistic argument for decarceration. Of California's prisoner-firefighters, she writes, "when the fall is dry, hot,/ windy, and desperate/they throw poor and brown bodies/ at the flames/ like they always have." A love letter for an imprisoned partner, a scathing indictment of racism, and a source of infinite beauty, A Pretty Little Wilderness is another devastating, gorgeous triumph by one of the hottest poets in the San Francisco Bay Area. If Oakland were to create a Poet Laureate's position, I'd nominate Cassandra, who puts her art where her great heart is. Jan Steckel, author of The Horizontal Poet
