For You Who Are Being Obliterated New & Selected Poems

by de la Perriere, Donna

• ISBN13: 9781946104717
• ISBN10: 194610471X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2026-07-31
• Publisher: Chax Press

Summary

"Haunted by history, a ghost dance...enacted with beauty and precision" (Maxine Chernoff) and characterized by "sound orchestration like Lorine Niedecker at her best" (Kevin Killian), For You Who Are Being Obliterated: New & Selected Poems draws from Donna de la Perriè re's five previous collections of poetry and includes more than a dozen new poems that reveal "poetry's essential miracle... vision awash in vision itself" (Donald Revell). In what has been called "the most necessary poetry we've had in a long, long time" (Gillian Conoley), de la Perriè re's work navigates the landscape of gender and violence, familial and regional history, grief and mortality, and the intersection of the material world with the Eternal. "One urgent line at a time is drawn like a blood sample: here is a poet of enormous and visionary talent" (Jane Miller).

Author Biography

Donna de la Perriè re is the author of five collections of poetry: three books — Works of Love & Terror (2019), Saint Erasure (2010), and True Crime (2009), all from Talisman House — as well as two chapbooks, Night Calendar (Omerta, 2018) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange Collection, 2013). She co-founded San Francisco’ s Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series (2004-2019) and taught creative writing at San Francisco State University for twenty years.