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Inmost reviews4/6/2023 Grey cotton Armand Canal paper on a Vandercook press in the University The cover images were letterpressed from polymer Using the long stitch with hand-dyed linen thread that varies slightlyįrom copy to copy. Printed in SLC, UT in 2020 on light blue smooth Mohawk Via paper and The University of Georgia, an invited member of the International Network forĬomparative Studies, and he holds a MFA in Poetry from the University of Notre He is a managing editor of Action Books, co-editor of Radioactive Cloud, andĬo-curator of the Yumfactory Reading Series. Trail, Harvard Review, Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, and others. New writing has most recently appeared in Apartment Poetry, Snail He has also translated two chapbooks by Sara TussĮfrik: Automanias (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad From the Swedish, he is the translator of Helena Österlund’s He is the author of The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism2 Madison McCartha, author of Freakophone World (Inside the Castle, 2021) And yet this bristling voice can become just as quickly a graffiti "policed in flashes / exaggerated by codes." But this shadow-world, this image-ball, doesn't just survive the gaze, but can stand-up as a darkly "flaming glimmer," sharpening against "the mirror system / of obliterate." These poems light-up the page as a glimmer- parole who can shape-shift at any moment: as a "drag king," a James Dean, a likeness, or a lash, an indeterminate aural terrain who plays many roles. The Inmost plays in the dig-site of the lyric, with an "I" who doubly 'slips' "through ruins" or "on animal livers," nakedly, "under coat of locks." These poems imbricate the reader in a process of encryption, whose speaker flits under a "wingly mosaic." Under names that soar "like gales," this "darkly purple" "I" traces a dexterous swerve, a "hacksaw-gasp," who "comet tragically" in mid-air collisions. C laire Cronin, author of Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God (Repeater Books, 2020) What's real in these pages? Be prepared for double vision. The Inmost is a mirror box: a mise en abyme. Its visions dissolve, flicker past, and cross-fade. The rulers here are screen stars, drag queens, and ancient Greek deities: Apollo, Athena, Houdini, Cleopatra, James Dean, and a mysterious "A." Stage magic starts to blur with spiritual transformation. The Inmost is a starry space between poles: ancient and modern, visceral and virtual, the world of mortals and the world of gods. Well as abject images of love and connection. It is powerful work and filled with soaring as The experience remembered, dissolved and reconstituted seems to culminate in How visceral the entrails, emotional and carnal, would be! And yet, despite theĪssertion-or is it protest?-that the speaker is the Apollonian poet of "anti-ascent", It is so learned and so raw! I had no idea As I read the book, I felt like a haruspex that is, Iįelt I was reading his inmost, and that he had already read mine. He gives us love in all its gory glory – theīroken hearts, the tinsel in intestines. In The Inmost, Paul Cunningham shows us his Printed and assembled by Carrion Bloom Books in SLC, UT in 2020įor a free digital version of this chapbook, send an email with the subject "PDF REQUEST" and the chapbook title(s) you want to carrionbloombooks (at) gmail (dot) com.
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