Words Like Love

Albuquerque, New Mexico: West End Press, 2015. First edition (stated). Golden yellow octavo, 100 pages; 23 cm. Light soiling to front cover and fore-edges, two spots to rear edges, extremely mild rubbing to corners, else Near Fine(+). Paperback. ISBN: 9780991074273

Signed and inscribed by author. "In her debut collection, poet Tanaya Winder sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. Love is defined by familial, cultural, platonic, and romantic bonds in these emotional and thoughtfully rendered poems. Her voice traverses the darkness in a quest to learn more about the most complex of subjects"-- Rear cover. Contents: I. Lessons In Frailty -- Dear Moon -- Reflections Of The Moon -- Weight Of Water -- In My Mother's Womb -- Lessons In Frailty -- Handling Paper Dolls -- Story About Winter -- One Day You Will Encounter A House Flooded -- Stone Mother -- Surrender To Memory -- Softly: How To Evaporate -- After, Life -- Textures Of Silence -- II. Language Less Learning -- Broken/Pipelines -- Raw -- Sonnet MCLXXXI -- Sculpt-Her -- Impermanence Of Human Sculptures -- Entering The Age Of Doubt -- W(Hole): Self-Medication -- When We Banish Tongues -- Learning To Say I Love You -- Language Less Learning -- Crazy Eight: Keeping Pace -- What John Wayne Couldn't Have Known -- Ten Little Indians -- Sometimes I Dream A Reservation Resides Inside Me -- Intertribal -- III. Forbidden Acts -- Forbidden Acts -- War On Words -- Love In A Time Of Blood Quantum -- When Angels Speak Of Love I'm Pretty Sure They Didn't Mean -- Patrick Would Never Say The Word Love -- Everything You Need To Know About Relationships Can Be Found In A Restroom Stall -- Love On Paper -- Psalm Of Surrender -- Somewhere Being Written -- Excavation -- IV. Order Of Things -- The Order Of Things -- Please Remember Me -- Teaching The Riff -- If There Is Something To -- Some Kind Of Dying -- Post-Flight Assessment: The Call Of Urgency -- Awakening: You Died While I Was Sleeping -- Never Meant To Touch -- Unchained Melody -- Measure By Measure: The Body Begs -- Consider The Assemblage Of A Longing -- The Significance Of A Hanging -- The Milky Way Escapes My Mouth -- We Were Once Two Stars -- Winter-Birds Of Flight -- Back To The Beginning. American poetry -- Indian authors -- 21st century.