Sea Seething At My Feet

In her fierce debut collection, Sea Seething At My Feet , Georgia Syribeys unflinchingly mines the complexities of cultural identity, betrayal, love and loss. From its opening sequence that documents a speaker s immigration from Europe during the war, to its explorations of the challenges and rewards of relationship, to its expressions of longing for connection (with nature, with God, with other), to its final poems of wary acceptance, this book bears the dual forces of wisdom and pain. With precise imagery and sonic richness, it asks of its readers, What else matters/in the dungeon of the night? We know, in the end, that the powers of love and language are what matter.
-Beth Gylys