Heavy Waters
by Ed Luker
Heavy Waters and is a mixture of poetic and prosaic workings on the sea, borders, and border violence.
This edition comes with a foreword from Verity Spott, in which she writes that the book is: "[a] collection of poetry that has resolved to speak of the terrifying crossings; the depth weighed up, the air weighed down - human lives pushed and pulled, fleeing and returning in the crisis who longs for our silence, in lyric refusal."
ISBN: 9781916477452
156 pages
Date published: 11/09/2019
Paperback
Ed Luker is a writer based in London. Working across fiction, poetry, and criticism, his writing is an ardent and dramatic attempt to love the world and the people in it — in the face of its contradictions and complications.
"The poems in Heavy Waters brilliantly register the smooth functioning of social force, the way it hangs on the literal incorporation of power as it is internalized, embodied, and contradictorily experienced. In a world in which 'loss' has become a hardened economic category, Luker returns 'loss' to the affective animation of the body, attuning our corpus to avert the local and global catastrophes that are crushing it." – Rob Halpern
