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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
About the author
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.
