Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Philomath, selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Sally Keith. She is a writer, editor, and erstwhile professional ballet dancer who grew up in Kings Valley, a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the 2018 recipient of the New England Review’s Emerging Writer Award, Walker-Figueroa has published poems in such journals as the American Poetry Review, The Nation, POETRY, Lana Turner, the Harvard Advocate, Ploughshares, and the New England Review. She is currently enrolled in NYU’s fiction MFA program, teaches writing courses at Saint Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, and serves as the co-founding editor of Horsethief Books.
Contents
I.
PHILOMATH
PERMISSION TO MAR
GOLDEN
KINGS VALLEY
OUT OF BODY
AFTER BIRTH
THE BLOOD'S UNWRITABLE PSALM
II.
MY MATERIA
OF GUT & GOLD
WE SAID OUR COMMON ANCESTOR WAS EVE
OUT OF BODY
MY FATHER'S HOUSE
GRAY DIGGERS
OUT OF BODY
III.
ASCENT
DRAIN
DAMP ROOM
PERSISTENCE OF VISION
CURSE OF BODIE
IV.
BEGINNING WAX TO BRONZE AT CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
UNDERSTUDY
PRIVATE LESSONS
NEXT TO NOTHING
IF SHE STANDS STILL, SHE IS DANCING
GALLOWED BE
