Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the imagination's
limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of
the poems in this daring collection confront head-on our current American
realities of empire, state violence, the endless "crisis chatter" of talking
heads, and the eerie, weightless feeling of catastrophe, they are tethered to
the gravitational pull of love and hope.
In Sleigh's poems, rocket engines and pancake houses, space stations
and mom's kitchen, terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are
all part of love's galactic amplitude.