Blade by Blade

Blade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness. Danusha Laméris’s third book, Blade by Blade , is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in “the heart’s farthest chambers.” Seeking a way back to joy following the deaths of her son and brother, the poet finds wonder in the furred legs of a caterpillar, in egrets, elephants, a