![]() ![]() Kyce Bello doesn’t mention fracking in her award-winning first book of poetry, Refugia, but as “the mapmaker cries out when riverwater / and seawater become one water,” it is difficult not to read “all the gods in mourning” as portentous and capable of knowing far more than the language of the poem can hold. Unsurprisingly, the culprit is again our insatiable need for the earth’s most tightly held resources, this one a hydrocarbon gas mixture that can, through the great force of pressurized, toxic, brackish water, be released from the shale that holds it. RECENTLY, IN KINGFISHER County, Oklahoma, saltwater began inexplicably bubbling up from the ground at a rate of “two-to-four gallons a minute,” killing trees and crops, potentially tainting drinking water and whole ways of living. Grant Schatzman Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kyce Bello Refugia Reno. With an aching lyricism and a set of family relations worthy of Faulkner’s darkest, Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water is a book that begs rereading and, generally, rewards it. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īeen observed by at least one reviewer of the Portuguese original as well.) Or perhaps this is another angst the book foists upon its readers: watching these characters experience such isolation when in fact they are only faced into separate corners of the same mental space, more a family than they realize. ![]()
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