Webster, Kerri: Lapis

Wesleyan University Press, paperback Publication Date: August 2, 2022 Publisher marketing: In Lapis, poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend. Using a wide array of lyric forms and meditations, Webster explores matrilineages both familial and poetic, weaving together death, spirituality, women, and a sense of the shifting earth into one "doctrine of Non-linear Revelation." Elegy And I was equal to my longing:the mums blackening;sorrow a carboned figurine;the firmament steaming; your ashesinterred in the boulder;the ugly birds crying dolor dolor dolor;the sky smoke-choked—what, then,would you have had be my register?As the beasts of the field rub their antlers offwith ooh-itch pleasure; as the screen saysYou often open around this time; as the grapesblight: listen: sometimeswe're the pilgrim, sometimeswe're the site.