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Come Again?

Come Again?

Moore, Alyssa N.

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 6, 2026

ISBN10: 0226853039
ISBN13: 9780226853031
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

In this formally inventive debut collection, a speaker continuously shapeshifts through roles, forms, and characters.

Alyssa N. Moore's Come Again? conjures a series of otherworldly scenarios in which reinvention becomes a form of resistance and a method to escape the snares of a modern existence to which we contribute but cannot control. Throughout these surreal and absurdist poems, an untethered consciousness is continuously reincarnated and dragged through various personae--including the Volunteer, the Eternal Counselor, the Streetcleaner, and the Architect--to find what exactly to do with a willing body. For example, in The Volunteer, a visual sequence, the book's shapeshifting narrator is dropped into a formless expanse and expected to perform. As we move through the collection, the speaker's perception morphs rapidly. From wage worker to computer programmer to sexbot to God, they collide over and over with the boundaries of the world. With each shift, the speaker guides us through a series of darkly comic set pieces that are, in turns, cinematic and slapstick as they seek a solid home base from which to reject the emptiness that's inherited.

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