Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris is a poet and essayist raised in Northern California and born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. Her newest book, Blade by Blade (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). Copper Canyon calls it a “book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in ‘the heart’s farthest chambers’ … These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we’ve forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again.”