paul hetherington
Her One Hundred and Seven Words
MadHat Press, 2021
$21.95
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“A 107-course meal that speaks our bittersweet limits and our sweetbitter need to live intensely before the end of the feast. It’s a gorgeous book.”—Professor Tony Barnstone
“The reader is held rapt in the to-and-fro … it is a gorgeous labyrinth of love, allusion, and absolutely luscious language.” —Moira Egan
Poems read:
“Ballet”
“Lepidopterist”
“Keats”
“Griffin”
“Bed”
“Popinjay”
“Bibliophile”
“Lollapalooza”
former DMQ Review Contibutor
wayne koestenbaum
Ultramarine
Nightboat Books, 2022
$19.95
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Ultramarine is the third volume of my trance poem trilogy. The first two volumes, also published by Nightboat, are The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) and Camp Marmalade (2018). In this video, I read the final five pages of Ultramarine.
Daniel Swain, in the American Poetry Review, summarizes my book: “The real political stakes of the text...are the way Koestenbaum uses aesthetic play to disturb given orders and hierarchies. When we join him in his trance state, snap judgments give way to free association, commodified logic to the pleasure principle...exploring the hysterical drives of our culture in their most distillate form."
Leonora simonovis
Study of the Raft
The Center for Literary Publishing, 2021
$16.95
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Study of the Raft explores the consequences of colonization in today's world, and in particular, the capacity of language to represent the complexity of lived experience when it involves more than one language and culture. The poems in this book wrestle with questions of life and death, with what remains after the loss of land, stories, and loved ones, and with how we as humans, constantly change and adjust in the face of uncertainty.
Poems Read:
“Water Rituals"
“Coup de Folie 2"
“Arches"
“What Happens When We Die" “Bedtime Stories"
(Winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry)