Welcome to Litsy!

I didn't want this one to end. The poems here are astonishing- visions of a soft apocalypse, then jumping into the past to walk with figures like Trotsky, Marx, and surrealists. By the end, I was left shaken, as if the world had cracked open and revealed its true face. Just astonishing work here.

"For a long time we have fought the sea."

"We gallop terribly into each other's memory." You are killin' me, Sallis!

James Sallis at dusk. If you saw the RyRy Gosling movie DRIVE, Sallis wrote the excellent novel it was based on. This is from a poem called "Letters," and like a lot of the poems in this collection, it hits me in the feels. But I am aquatic at ❤️, so I will eat up any beautiful writing about ?.

A small stack for TBR Tuesday, all things considered. Putting Different Class on the back burner in hopes of knocking out some comics/photo books/poetry.