Word-Made World

Author: Chee Brossy

Publisher: The Word Works (2025)

"What a book of love and praise this is! Chee Brossy’s latest, Word-Made World, offers poems that 'sing with the sweat of our bodies, our labored breath.' This book sings for the beautiful in struggle, even as '[i]ndifference is the driving force, / the framework of all life.' It is a kind of guidebook drafted from humility and wisdom, with poems that clearly see 'evolution and the Holy Beings, / the sobering depths, festering wounds of history, / and the joy in applying the enemy’s language.' In a world of terabytes and AI and information overload, Brossy’s work remains steady and unhurried, a meditation in verse that implores us 'to rise, scrape your crusted eyes, / gather fuel, make a fire.'

—Brian Turner