# Lapis - Paperback

by **Kerri Webster** (Author)

**A record of visionary experience in the wake of loss**  
  
In _Lapis_, poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend. Using a wide array of lyric forms and meditations, Webster explores matrilineages both familial and poetic, weaving together death, spirituality, women, and a sense of the shifting earth into one "doctrine of Non-linear Revelation."  
  
Elegy  
  
And I _was_ equal to my longing:  
the mums blackening;  
sorrow a carboned figurine;  
the firmament steaming; your ashes  
interred in the boulder;  
the ugly birds crying dolor dolor dolor;  
the sky smoke-choked--what, then,  
would you have had be my register?  
As the beasts of the field rub their antlers off  
with ooh-itch pleasure; as the screen says  
You often open around this time; as the grapes  
blight: listen: sometimes  
we're the pilgrim, sometimes  
we're the site.

### Author Biography

KERRI WEBSTER (Boise, ID) is the author of the poetry collections _The Trailhead_, _We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone,_ and _Grand & Arsenal_, the latter of which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. The recipient of awards from the Whiting Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, she was a Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis from 2006-2010. She currently teaches at Boise State University.

**Number of Pages:** 96

**Dimensions:** 0.32 x 8.94 x 6.09 IN

**Publication Date:** August 30, 2022

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- **Price:** 17.23 USD
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