cover image Around Sea

Around Sea

Brenda Iijima. O Books, $12 (104pp) ISBN 978-1-882022-51-9

With a tremendous sense of line, Brenda Iijima frames the area Around Sea, ""Just the landscape/ before realization/ before resource/ before it could/ speak."" In six sections titled by the pages that begin them (""II: page twenty-one), Iijima counts ""NASA's/ low numbers. Buddha's/ big toes. Mohammad's/ breath,"" downloads ""[t]he oculus eye charged with impressions of outer motions,"" and finds a way to ""Curtail the will/ to die.""