These Poems' Sensual Details Explore The Friction Between Integrity And Desire
Natasha Rao gets to know herself by examining how she clings to her past in her debut poetry collection Latitude.
How we perceive ourselves changes as we grow. And for poet Natasha Rao, self-awareness is valuable. It shows us how reality works against our memories and dreams. In her debut collection Latitude, which won the 2021 APR/Honickman Prize, Rao becomes aware of her animal self — wanting food, companionship, sex — by perusing what she unabashedly desires from the world around her.
Across the book, the poet's prime approach to "knowing" herself is an examination of how she clings to her
