Vatomsky, Sonya: Salt Is for Curing

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Salt Is for Curingby Sonya Vatomsky (Sator Press, paperback)

Publication Date: November 13, 2015

Publisher Marketing:Poetry. Women’s Studies. LGBT Studies. SALT IS FOR CURING is the lush and haunting full-length debut by Sonya Vatomsky. These poems, structured as an elaborate meal, conjure up a vapor of earthly pains and magical desires; like the most enduring rituals, Vatomsky’s poems both intoxicate and ward. A new blood moon in American poetry, SALT IS FOR CURING is surprising, disturbing, and spookily illuminating.

“Sonya Vatomsky’s SALT IS FOR CURING is many things: a feast, a grimoire, a fairy tale world, the real world. It’s also too smart for bullshit and too graceful to be mean about the bullshit: a marvelous debut. I love it.”Ariana Reines

“Curious, intricate poems.”Roxane Gay, author ofBad Feminist

“Imagine bodies within bodies eating a feast, spilling over with their own secrets and hopes and dreams and fears and brutality and witchery. That is the party you will find in this booka modern-day, literary equivalent of a Bosch painting.”Juliet Escoria

“These poems melt the hard fat of life into tallow candles, then they reach up and light themselves.”Mike Young

Also praised by art/culture/occult siteLuna Luna Magazine, author Dennis Cooper, goth lifestyle siteThe Belfry, Entropy Magazine, darkling jeweler Blood Milk, and others.