A Thousand Horses Out to Sea
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A Thousand Horses Out to Sea is a dark, feminine collection of poetry. There is song here, stomp dance and corrido and deep, sad lyricism. The poems range from prose to semi-narrative, but each one shows us a unique portrait of human life. Set mainly in desert Southwest, inside the glittering Indian city of Albuquerque, the lives in these poems are full of cruelty, beauty, and pain. This book is reveals the strange, intimate space that sex creates, and illuminates what happens when you try to reach towards something else, and transcend into beauty amidst the bruised flower of love.
Erika T. Wurth
Erika T. Wurth is the author of White Horse and The Haunting of Room 904 (Flatiron/Macmillan). She’s a New York Times editors' pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target Book of the Month, and BOTM pick. She’s both a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, has published in The Kenyon Review, Buzzfeed, and The Writer’s Chronicle, and is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver Installation. She’s an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. She’s a professor at Western Illinois University. Representation: Mark Gottlieb at Trident.
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