Overview

Morphology, by definition, is the study of the forms of words and bodies. In her second book, Erica Miriam Fabri uses the formation of words--molded into poems--to celebrate and mourn various forms of bodies. The bodies featured as main characters in this collection include lovers, family members, children, ghosts, rats, jellyfish, skeletons, and snakes. While this book of poetry is set mostly in New York City, it also journeys to far-flung destinations such as outer space, the deep sea, and the afterlife.

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""Where love meets language-a stunning exploration of bodies, both present and vanished""

""Morphology is Erica Miriam Fabri's most dazzling collection of poems, showcasing a writer with full control of her craft. With her trademark syntax--consistently original and strange--Fabri scaffolds stories of grief and love with a poet's curiosity and reckless charm. Whether writing of a man sleeping beside his wife's corpse, or the grueling anticipation of a firstborn's late arrival, Fabri solidifies herself as the most unbridled romantic bard in contemporary poetry."" - Rachel McKibbens, Poet ""In Morphology, Erica Miriam Fabri moves with imagination, exuberance and grace through visceral, challenging terrain: the death of a first love, a marriage's break-up, the aftermath of 9-11. The book culminates with a riveting thirty-poem sequence, a series of diaristic missives addressed to the child-to-be the poetic speaker is carrying to term; we readers are privileged to be privy to this intimate address that blends the public and the private in fresh and engaging ways. Fabri's Morphology just might change you."" - Jeffrey McDaniel, Poet ""Running through Erica Miriam Fabri's poetry is a ribbon of the fantastical, magical, and allegorical--she sees what is extraordinary woven through the fabric of the ordinary. The collection is beautiful and vulnerable, alternatingly gentle and sharp, moving and revealing in a way that lingers long after a reader returns to their own extraordinary ordinary life."" - Sarah Kay, Poet ""In Morphology, Erica Miriam Fabri takes vast concepts and reimagines them with an intimacy that feels close and deeply relatable. Her poems have a way of sneaking up on you--like feeling blissfully safe in the eye of a hurricane, only to emerge profoundly aware of its impact."" - Dominique Fishback, Actress and Poet ""Erica Miriam Fabri is amazing. I love these poems and I appreciate her observations of life and the way she wrangles her words and the world."" - Dante Basco, Actor and Poet

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Erica Miriam Fabri is a Brooklyn-based poet and the author of Dialect of a Skirt (a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize). Her poetry has been widely published in magazines, anthologies, and featured in multi-media formats including art installations, short films, and television commercials. She teaches writing at Pace University and for The City University of New York.

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