num_pages: 144
description: In concise and distilled prose Lemus presents a collection of still lifes landscapes and portraits of a challenging year that threatened all she loved most.Lush and vibrant even in its sparseness Felicia Luna Lemus's Particulate Matter masterfully evokes the fragmentary experience of moving through time and space. Episodes flash by us eliciting worry or wonder defeat or delight. It can all change in a moment Lemus assures us. Finding the lyrical in the mundane Lemus's lines pause motion require the reader to consider what informs the impulse what lies in the spare space between yes or no and fight or flight. These before-and-after moments and the emotions that attend them--longing loss love anger--mark us accumulate become us. Particulate Matter is a powerful exploration of the quickly changing landscapes--fraught brittle pensive luminous--inside us.--Lynell George author of After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the FrameParticulate Matter is a blessed offering: Felicia Luna Lemus shows us her fierce and generous heart and soul in gorgeous tender playful prose. Come tell me that's hyperbole after you read it.--Elizabeth Crane author of TurfParticulate Matter is the story of a year in Felicia Luna Lemus's marriage when the world turned upside down. It's set in Los Angeles and it's about love and crisis loss and grief the city and the ocean ancestral ghosts and history haunting. Nature herself seemed to howl. Fires raged and covered the house Lemus and her spouse shared in ash. Everything crystallized. It was the most challenging and terrifying time she had ever gone through and yet it was also a time when the sublime beauty of the everyday shone through with particular power and presence.
language: English
title: Particulate Matter
publisher: Akashic Books