Antidote for Night de Marsha de la O

Antidote for Night

Marsha de la O

WINNER OF THE 2015 ISABELLA GARDNER POETRY AWARD

Set in present-day Southern California, Antidote for Night is a heartbreak lyric, a corrido, a love song to California's city lights and far-flung outskirts—the San Diego backcountry, the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, and the Mojave Desert. Marsha de la O's voice is a kind of free jazz, musically rich with LA noir and the vastness of metropolitan Southern California.

Marsha de la O's Black Hope won the New Issues Prize from the University of Western Michigan and an Editor's Choice Award. She has taught Spanish-speaking children in Los Angeles and Ventura County for thirty years.

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"In the title poem of Marsha de la O’s new book, there is no antidote for night. Night—the domain of dream and death—is the price we pay for life and imagination. It is the without which not of art and love, and we make our accommodation with it as best we can. No one knows what terror or delights the next dreamscape will offer, and part of the charm of de la O’s poems is their utter unpredictability. She has studied her Neruda and Vallejo and concluded that the art of poetry involves giving readers not what they want but what they need....Faithful to the advice of Robert Bly, that early translator of the Spanish-language surrealists and advocate of ‘leaping poetry,’ de la O braids narrative, weaving rhythm and melody into un-ravel-able wholes....This is a magical book, not just because witches and magic figure in the poems, but because the poems themselves are charms, incantations, hexes and prayers. They offer an old-fashioned remedy for a contemporary soul sickness." —Lee Rossi, Los Angeles Review

"Splendidly incisive, de la O doesn’t so much observe landscapes as create them, just as her father “conjured this city,/ my labyrinth, our treasure” while navigating the “red snake/ traffic"... A terrific discovery that many readers will find both illuminating and accessible." —Library Journal

"Antidote for Night is visceral, often looking squarely in the eyes of death and violence. In particular her musings on certain young men of color — some she knew growing up, others her students during 25-plus years as a bilingual educator in Los Angeles and Santa Paula — stand out, if only for their timeliness, being published as they are in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and Walter Scott at the hands of police." —Ventura County Reporter

"Antidote for Night by Marsha de la O is a gem. This award-winning poetry book is written by a poet who is completely tuned into her world, never missing a nuance, observation or opportunity to invite the reader to join her in transcendence. These contemplative poems are a balance of the darkness and the light that we all face; always embracing the importance of family, birth, death, health, beauty and the natural world ... This is one of those rare poetry books that needs to be read slowly and listened to carefully. The messages here are profound and strong, akin to the psalms. They have wisdom and a musical quality that inspires us to read them over and over again." —Dr. Diana Raab

"In Antidote for Night, [Marsha de la O] slips her scalpel beneath the slippery patinas of Southern California, flaying away media exaggerations to reveal the beauty and the bestial." —Heavy Feather Review

"Like Gary Soto and Philip Levine, de la O has that rare gift to write poems rooted in a consistent landscape, yet the variety, nuance, and emotional maturity in her work transcend local considerations to achieve universal appeal....Antidote for Night is an ethereal, sonorous, and gripping collection that seeks, for humanity and for the earth, a reckoning with 'the actual damage/the way the body took it.'" —Adam Tavel, Plume

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Marsha de la O’s Black Hope won the New Issues Poetry Prize from the University of Western Michigan and an Editor’s Choice Award. Her work appears widely in such journals as Barrow Street, Passages North, Solo, and Third Coast, and has been anthologized in Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine), Saying What Needs to Be Said (Solo Press); Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California (Greenhouse Review Press); the poetry workshop handbook One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form (Lynx House Press), and the forthcoming Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry Series). She is the recipient of the 2014 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, the dA Poetry Prize, the Ventura Poetry Prize, two cultural arts grants from the City of Ventura, and a Tumblewords Poetry Residency. With her husband, poet Phil Taggart, she publishes the poetry journal Askew.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ONE

Moon with Text
Once
Passing Hyperion
Chinese Lantern
Nobody Knows
Viento
Possum
Biscuit, Ingot, Spirit
Sanchez
Another Woman
What It Takes
Same Loom

TWO

To Go to Riverside
His Burning Cloud
Northridge Quake
I Have Not Said If I Believe
That Stone The Beautiful World
Sarabande
Her Breath Comes in Feathers
Coyote Song Wildfire at Witch Creek
Under the Lemon Tree
To Your Unborn Child
Homesteader
Here day is surrounded

THREE

This Time
Anna Mae
Antidote for Night
Whistle Keeps on Blowing
Say Nothing
Another Dream of Death
Something Fresh
Crossing Over Black Hands
First Storm How to Go On
Murmur

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