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7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin)

7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin)

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Sabrina Dalla Valle

  • DETAILS

    2013, 88 pages

    ISBN 978-0-932716-80-4

     

    DESCRIPTION

    Composed in a hybrid form that braids personal narrative with philosophical reflections, 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin) by Sabrina Dalla Valle ponders the complexities of human communication and perception by time-traveling from the historical present to the ancient past through the reverberating voices of the oldest known thinkers. Along the way, it reaches out to mirrored existences that are as fathomless as the infinitesimal connections between our cells. In her desert journal, philosopher’s notes take the form of old chants and tales that emerge anew as thought-scapes embodying a timeless ritual of gazing at the gods.

     

    Winner of the 2013 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest, judged by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin) by Sabrina Dalla Valle inaugurates a series of first books by emerging writers. In this series, Kelsey Street Press continues to link its editorial policy of addressing the marginalization of women writers to a poetics of allowance that encourages women to write directly from their own creative imperatives. 

     

    BIOGRAPHY

    Sabrina Dalla Valle explores visible and invisible worlds—where experience becomes a writing experiment. Author of three chapbooks: The Night House (Bottlecap Press, 2024); Bee as Timbral Space : a post-geometric eclogue (Logosophia Books, 2016); 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Mindmade Books, 2012). Editor of Centenarian Vision (Ringling College letterpress, 2018) and Diaphany (Rubedo Press, 2015). Anthologized in The Architecture of Life (BAMPFA, 2016); Alchemical Traditions (Numen Books, 2013); and Best of Kore Press 2012 Poetry (Kore Press, 2012). Sabrina lives in St Petersburg, Florida.

  • PRAISE

    The true artist, as Plato writes, "is one who is able to make not only vessels of every kind . . .but make the gods also by turning a mirror round and round. . ." in the creation of a hymn. Sabrina Dalla Valle offers readers this hymn. Simultaneously personal and transpersonal, this is a work that will both disturb and delight you.
    —Sherry L. Ackerman, Ph.D., Behind the Looking Glass: Reflections of the Myth of Lewis Carroll

     

     

    MORE INFORMATION

    Between time and the topology of flesh, review by Emji Spero for Jacket2 

     

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