A searching poetry collection about bodies, ecological grief, and the systems that shape both, A Ways Away moves between the intimate and the catastrophic, finding the personal entangled with the political.
A Ways Away unfolds in three raw movements, turning from the everyday horrors of life to the natural world and back again. These poems trace the connections between social death, politicized medicine, bodily autonomy, and environmental degradation.
Through the lens of fractured logic during COVID year zero, A Ways Away examines what happens when the structures meant to sustain us become sources of harm--and Languell reminds us precisely what it means to remain attentive to the living world amid that damage. These poems have dirt under their fingernails.
