POETRY : UNTITLED by Sarah Heady

Sarah Heady’s new collection from Spuyten Duyvil is a full-on gorgeous experience. Pulling from rural women’s magazines of the 1920s, Heady crafts poem after poem of intricately woven language that echoes not only the solitude of women and their experience, but the small routines they shared to try and find some form of solace. Heady recorded the below poem, from the collections first section “: sunup :” and we are extremely excited to share it.

Grab a copy of Comfort from Spuyten Duyvil.

Or, if you’re in the area, come on toThe Racket Reading Series: BEGIN AGAIN on Tuesday, December 6th at The Sycamore where Heady will be reading and selling the collection.

Or, better yet, do all of it. Read, buy, attend–fully indulge yourself in the work of Sarah Heady. It’ll only make your life better.

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Sarah Heady

multiples of ten, how i loved the way we galloped :

but i fell asleep in fields macadam-black, their sweating gutters : still

we prospered. i sent my sister an endless knot :

it got lost in the mail : too infinite for the system

Reprinted with permission from Comfort by Sarah Heady, 2022, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, New York City. Copyright 2022 by Sarah Heady.

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Sarah Heady is a poet, essayist, and librettist interested in place, history, and the built environment. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Comfort (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) and Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills, 2013, winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award), as well as the chapbook Corduroy Road (dancing girl press, 2021) and the limited edition letterpress book Tatted Insertion (San Francisco State University, 2014, with artist Leah Virsik).