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"A clever, postmodern take on logic exploring love. This collection of poems is experimental yet cohesive in nature. A read-before-you-die series of words that undulate on the page." -Kelly Sexton
"I remember that it takes work to remember." Fragmented portraits and metropolitan pastorals arc along a pendulum of solitude, illustrating alternate desires of preservation and renewal. Babb creates connections through elemental communion with objects, nature, family, and fading keepsakes, transforming mundanity and trauma into oneness with the present.
Love isn't always pretty, yet most of us choose to remain constant in its pursuit. These poems unwrap the mythos of romance with the clairvoyance of a writer who knows the best and worst of relationships inside and out. LeBlanc dares to honestly show us how even when the best of intentions fail, we can always find beauty if we stay true to the monsters in ourselves.
Head of a Gorgon is a narrative in poems that reimagines the myth of Medusa, transporting this ancient tale of sexual violence into contemporary times and examining it through a survivor-centric, feminist lens. Via persona poems that enable readers to hear this story primarily and directly from a protagonist often sidelined or silenced in other tellings, this devastating collection brings the visceral physical and psychological experiences and effects of sexual trauma out of the shadows and into the spotlight, revealing a path along which survivors might reimagine themselves within the societal structures that work against them.
I admit to drinking straight from the mouth of the milk carton when I was young. I didn't see the harm in it, and no one had explicitly told me not to. But I also understood it was not something I could do in front of anyone, nor was it something I could talk about. Later on I took to drinking straight from the bottle of Black Velvet my dad kept in the back of the tallest kitchen cabinet, and the same rules applied. This type of behavior reduced me, turned me into a sneak and a thief. When the bottle was almost gone save an inch, I filled it up halfway with water and left it alone. We found other ways to drink, my friends and I. We found other secrets to keep, secrets that were darker and more disappointing. In this way, we grew up.
Adedayo's poems clutch at your heart, reminding you that life is for those brave enough to become themselves. Romance, family, and war orbit around lush verses that demand an existence made full.
Using the language of music and applying it to all the senses, Shape Note Singing is an exploration of listening as a means of recovering from trauma. Drawing inspiration from Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening theory, Turner creates rejuvenating poetry aided by nature, music, and of course a cat, ultimately finding love and acceptance within one's self the balm to heal scars left by damned salvation.
Each poem in SO WHAT is entitled SO WHAT, which speaks to the idea that everything is a contribution to the singular endless stolen poem of history. As an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation questioning the validity of American ideals, Cline writes lyric and prose poems that interrogate his complicity in imperialism. This long-awaited volume of colloquial verse from a rising Native American voice maintains eloquence, poignancy, and humor throughout. Think a tribal Frank O'Hara.
Luci Sykes is the supernova genius behind Olympia Navigation, producer of the world's most intuitive GPS systems. Luci's twin brother, Tokker, separated from at birth and long hidden on a subsistence farm in the Midwest, and BEACON, Olympia's penultimate GPS system, must foil Luci's suspected plot to end the human race.
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