Lisa Collyer
How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up
Gazebo Books, 2023
$19.97
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How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is a conversation in poems on the taboo and abject bodies of women. Collyer disrupts selflessness, tackling the disquieting dilemmas of feminine space with erotic and comic freedom.
‘Searing poetry of feminine experience, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is unashamedly visceral and lights up with flashes of literary incandescence. Formally inventive, bleakly comic, slyly erotic – these are poems which bristle with edges and glint like cut gems. Each poem arrives like a dare, refusing euphemism or domestication.’
Darren C. Demaree
neverwell
Harbor Editions, 2023
$18
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This reading is of the opening arc of neverwell, my nineteenth full-length collection, which deals with my own history of alcohol addiction. The goal of this book was to write a collection of poetry that was stark, with as little metaphor as possible, and to show in full that time just before sobriety, new sobriety, and the ramifications of what is carried deeper into sobriety.
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V.C. Myers
Ophelia
Femme Salve Books, 2023
$20
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V.C. Myers's new gothic poetry collection, Ophelia, intertwines erasures of Shakespeare's Hamlet with original poems to explore allegories of sexual assault, domestic violence, and death, spanning the centuries from classic mythology to the #metoo movement.