Gillian Conoley
Notes from the Passenger
Nightboat Books, 2023
$17.95
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Gillian Conoley's Notes from the Passenger reads as if written “in an aura of intimacy," intimacy with the daughter, the lover, the reader, the dead, and with the spirit, sometimes called God, sometimes called “the messenger." In wide-open poems that expose the junk and the beauty of the material world, the violence and the grace within the social, Conoley embraces “mortality . . . with is rosy edge of want" while catapulting toward the infinite, what she calls the “next next world."
–Julie Carr
Conoley uncannily reveals our historic epoch: What is true? What is agency? What, in fact, constitutes the living?
–Rodrigo Toscano
Jessica Cuello
Yours, Creature
JackLeg Press, 2023
$18.00
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Yours, Creature is a series of epistolary poems in the voice of Mary Shelley. Some are addressed to her mother, the feminist and activist Mary Wollstonecraft, others to her creature from Frankenstein.
Poems read:
“Dear Mother, [I had a dream]"
“Dear Creature, [The sea of ice]"
“Dear Creature, [After everyone forgot]"
“Dear Creature, [P. and I read]"
“Dear Creature, [Because of what I did]"
Sandra Marchetti
Aisle 228
Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2023
$18
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Aisle 228 is a book of poems about the Chicago Cubs, listening to baseball on the radio, and going to games with my father.
“Sandra Marchetti writes like a poet who knows the strike zone. The poems are new and smooth like a ball ready to be rubbed by a pitcher. Sandra Marchetti writes from inside the ballpark, that holy sacred place. Let her poems guide you from the aisle to the altar.”
–E. Ethelbert Miller
Poems read:
“Arizona"
“Broadcast"
“Save"
“First Poem"
“Elysian Park"