About

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Doug Ramspeck
Julie Suk Prize longlist

Through the use of imagination, fairy tale and persona Dark Braid bridges the universal and the personal by focusing on the body, problematic relationships, illness (both mental and physical) and feelings of being an outsider.

Author

Dara Yen Elerath’s work has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is also a graduate of the Southwest University of Visual Arts and the University of New Mexico. A graphic artist as well as a poet, she lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dark Braid is her debut book.

Praise

“Like dripping jewels, each of Elerath’s poems is a glimmering collage of images clipped from anatomy and botany books, old Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales and from the pages of fashion magazines.”
—Cynthia Cruz

“Dark Braid is a gift from the sky: its violence, its beauty, its endlessness, its suffocation, its water, its wind.”
–Jake Skeets, author of Oprah Daily

Publisher

Distributed for BkMk Press.