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"Helena Mesa's Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea takes readers on a profound journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and transformation in the aftermath of grief. The poems in the collection address the risk of forgetting, recognizing the darkness that threatens to consume anything lost. Despite this uncertainty, the poems remind us that we are a sanctuary of memories, begging to be loved and cherished, even if we must eventually let go. Mesa confronts a world that is constantly divided. Masterfully composed, these poems are full of light, radiating with a ""wild joy,"" for the living that longs to shine and be remembered. -Ruben Quesada, Revelations"

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"In this, her second collection, Helena Mesa crosses ""the space between there /and here"" in memory, by boat, by plane, with messages smuggled in white flowers, through the colors orange and black, in bible stories, her faith lost, her lost loves, lost cities, over the sea and under the sky. Robert Frost wrote, ""If it is a wild tune, it is a Poem."" The songs in this book are nothing less than magic and the scope of Mesa's quest, vast devastatingly particular. -Kathy Fagan, Bad Hobby Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea is about and evokes distances, between lovers, mothers and daughters, and countries. The abiding spirit, who sometimes appears as Lot's Daughter, Eve, Penelope, and other figures, is the poet as recorder of a lost home, the poet singing of and from exile. Like Glück and Boland, whose words offer entry into the collection, Mesa powerfully engages myth, and her lyric poems rise to the level of myth, transforming the personal into the allegorical. With spare yet rich language, in poem after poem, Mesa beautifully layers the present upon remnants of the past. -Shara McCallum, No Ruined Stone"

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Helena Mesa is the author of Horse Dance Underwater (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) and a co-editor of Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press). Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. A fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and teaches at Albion College.

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