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Sarah Blake - Named After Death

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Poetry can sometimes be challenging, and you think, "oh no, a poem, what if I read it wrong??" But Blake's helpfully paired her poems with a thematically-related activity book, full of mazes, connect-the-dots, and colouring exercises, and I am TERRIFIC at those, so now I'm great at poetry too. Thank you Sarah!!

--Ryan North, author of Dinosaur Comics and Romeo and/or Juliet

When does a life end? Does it end with, or before, or after the self ends? In Named After Death, Sarah Blake writes—forcefully, gorgeously—her way to and through answers to these questions and other, parallel and equally impossible, questions. These poems testify to the terrible end of the self, to its bewildering continuing on beyond death, and to the difficultly of asserting one’s own selfhood when one is called upon to bear not just the memories, but to some extent the selves of the dead and of the beloved, as women are too often called upon to do. "I allow myself to think of things beyond him / and I am flooded by them," Blake writes. Her poems think, and live.

--Shane McCrae, author of The Animal Too Big to Kill and Forgiveness Forgiveness

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Elinor Abbott – Is This The Most Romantic Moment of My Life?

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“To read Elinor Abbott's Is This The Most Romantic Moment Of My Life? is to be completely spellbound. Abbott is relentless in her distinctive and original account of love all the way to its conclusion, which we find out itself is love. As Abbott writes, "The best and truest and most beautiful thing I did in all those years we were together, the absolute apex of the entire thing, what I did with the most love, was leave him." Abbott's execution of humor, vulnerability, and poetic timing is completely flawless. Her collection of essays work together as a memoir of certain loss, but also as an original voice, center stage, speaking directly to you; giving you a wild permission to let go, to break your own heart.” –Katherine Osborne, author of Fire Sign.

“Elinor Abbott's Is This the Most Romantic Moment of My Life? deals with the disintegration of a marriage with taut, honest, and sometimes, heartbreaking essays. It reminds you how important it is to always choose magic even when the space between magic and bullshit is the space of a sigh.” –Jesse Bradley, author of The Adventures of Jesus Christ, Boy Detective.

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Weston Cutter--Regulation Ghost

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Weston Cutter’s Regulation Ghost reveals its spirit in the first poem: “from here/I exhume the past”. With a glittering pickax, Cutter clears away the sediment from sentiment, and shows us what lives in the bright “flickering reels” of his memory – the search for, loss, and finding again of love, beauty, youth, and home. The past life/life passed in these poems never seems like one lamented for, but one that is used as a tool to locate oneself in the present, and “for where into the narrative to stitch myself”, using experience as a way to find meaning in the present “even if it all meant nothing”.  This collection is full of so much gorgeous wisdom, energy, and “music where you least expect” with lines that build upon themselves the way the past builds upon itself: a natural stacking that could feel claustrophobic if it wasn’t infused with so much agility and light. The Regulation Ghost of these poems acts as a divine pulley that yanks us back and forth between what we have and have yet to experience, between the “nothing…[we] wake to” and the “hopes that have taken names”. After reading these poems, you will see that Cutter, like “the lightning of the living has left/deep black burns on the inside of your mind”.

--Meghan Privitello, author of A New Language For Falling Out of Love

Regulation Ghost is an ecstatic soundtrack—a mixtape of blissful melodies. Weston Cutter is an astonishing poet. These poems reveal the metaphysics of the supermarket, the exuberance of days both cluttered and lonely, how all the things we know—from the birdfeeder to a lover’s skin—are connected, are knotted with kissing, and that all our failures and confusions will remain, but they are permanent with a thousand kinds of love. It is simple: Cutter’s exhilarating poems improve the quality of life. There is no poet I’d rather read.

--Alex Lemon, author of The Wish Book and Happy: A Memoir If you enjoyed Regulation Ghost, please consider making a donation, 100% of which goes to the author.