prairie(d)

Author: Garin Cycholl

Publisher: Blazevox [Books] (2025)

Fourth in Garin Cycholl’s Illinois series of long poems, prairie)d joins Blue Mound to 161, Hostile Witness, and The Bonegatherer. This work explores water’s place and persistence in memory. What myths does water hold? What traces of human presence will persist beyond ecological catastrophe? A fading autobiographical map, prairie)d opens conversations between Tiresias, Tyrone Hayes, and human myth, “ahowl and wailing her dead into the current.”