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In What Turtle Blood Tastes Like, Lamb sifts through the dirt, hungry for roots, for memory, for the bones of ancestors. Regret, doubt and anxiety are connective tissue, linking childhood to fatherhood and house to body. The debut poetry collection interrogates what is inherited and what can be cultivated through postmemory. Turtle blood tastes like mud and skunk cabbage, is bitter like iron and fear. These poems taste like summers used to smell, musky, dirty, perfect.
About the Author
Lamb, Jonas: - Jonas Lamb lives in Juneau, Alaska with his wife and sons. When not practicing the parenting arts, waiting for winter, drinking in the laundry room or investing sweat and blood equity into his south-facing, storm-blasted, 110-year-old house he works as a librarian and at being a better middle-aged human. His poems have appeared in Tidal Echoes, The Kent Collector, Juneau's Poetry OmniBus among others. What Turtle Blood Tastes Like is his debut collection and the recipient of the Jason Wenger Award for Literary Excellence. @juneaujonas jonaslambpoetry.com
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