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Julie Doxseeis Canadian-American and the author of several books of poetry, includingUndersleep,What Replaces Us When We Go,The Next Monsters, andObjects for a FogDeath, the latter three also published by Black Ocean. She is an associate professor of English at Harrisburg University.
The Fastening posits time as an oil, a sap, a skin, a river (of course), as blood-whatever sustains or poisons, muffles or protects, fossilizes or commodifies us. A barb that pierces through to the raw nerve, or a balm that sheaths it. Its poems still the past, present, and future in Doxsee's crystal ball, her amber deposits, which we must then chuck from the sea cliff. That's a life. Moments released bleed together in the sea, and we go through all this before the rest of the world wakes up. I'm obsessed with this book of days. Oh, baby. These days are golden in their perversity, outwardly blowing wide and returning. -Danielle Pafunda, author of Spite
