Skip to main content

Distributed for Carnegie Mellon University Press

Approximate Body

A collection of poems that confront an emotional reckoning with the complexities of domestic life.
 
Approximate Body reflects upon the dramas of domestic life with equal parts cynicism, nostalgia, and grief. Richly narrative, fragmented, and featuring a variety of landscapes suburban, tropical, and ancient, these poems affirm an intricate mix of guilt and longing, proclaiming that “if I’ve loved / anything it has not been / enough.”
 

64 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2023

Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series

Poetry


Carnegie Mellon University Press image

View all books from Carnegie Mellon University Press

Reviews

"Pieratti’s nuanced meditations create a world of inner and outer landscapes, inextricably bound. Her poems suffuse the ordinary—hay and mud and ice, horses and orchards, childhood and womanhood and parenthood—with a sensibility both acute and tender."

Kim Addonizio

“[Danielle Pieratti's poetry] navigates the complex, expansive space between the writer and the world and explores the mundane moments and materials that make up ordinary days and finds there the ambiguities of mystery, shadow, and song.”

Connecticut Center for the Book

Be the first to know

Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!

Sign up here for updates about the Press