SINK Florida and dealing with some loss

and dealing with some loss related to family

Joel Erkkinen is an artist

– Noel Quiñones

These poems are in my DNA now

First offer up a thousand random examples of metaphors until you stumble on one that feels like it’s begging you to explore how it’s true and shows up in your experience

SINK Florida and dealing with some lossDesire Dallagiacomo, 2019. Desire Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. SINK asks and answers hard questions about grief, lineage, death and all manner of inheritance. What is one left with when they come from a family that has nothing to its name but loss? Throughout, Dallagiacomo weighs the cost of what it is to be alive and a woman in a landscape that makes being alive and a woman uninviting. SINK