Here is the Night and the Night on the Road - Gomery, Mónica
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Mónica Gomery's Here is the Night and the Night on the Road is here! Manuel Paul López writes that it's "a vibrant collection populated with lives 'drinking carbon out of the sky.' We confront an environmental logic here where 'each day...[is] swabbed in light.' Gomery's poetry consists of ache and wail; outrage and grief; love and tenderness, and most abundantly evident, the immense compassion that this poet delivers in a sweeping, resuscitative vision that honors both life and death." Lillian-Yvonne Bertram says, "In the long tradition of poems about grief, Gomery is a necessary voice. This…mehr

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Mónica Gomery's Here is the Night and the Night on the Road is here! Manuel Paul López writes that it's "a vibrant collection populated with lives 'drinking carbon out of the sky.' We confront an environmental logic here where 'each day...[is] swabbed in light.' Gomery's poetry consists of ache and wail; outrage and grief; love and tenderness, and most abundantly evident, the immense compassion that this poet delivers in a sweeping, resuscitative vision that honors both life and death." Lillian-Yvonne Bertram says, "In the long tradition of poems about grief, Gomery is a necessary voice. This is an exquisite study in the suddenness of numbered days and the radiant pain of living with love 'tumbling forth.'"
Autorenporträt
Mónica Gomery is a rabbi and poet, raised by her Venezuelan Jewish family in Boston and Caracas, and now living in Philadelphia. Her work explores queerness, diaspora, ancestry, theology, and cultivating courageous hearts. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing BFA program at Goddard College and received rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College. She is the author of the poetry collection Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). She is the winner of the 2020 Minola Review Poetry Contest, judged by Doyali Islam, and has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a finalist in the Cutthroat Journal Joy Harjo Poetry Contest. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and publications. Here is the Night and the Night on the Road is her first full-length book of poetry. She lives in Philadelphia, on unceded Lenni Lenape land, with her partner and her dog.