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Scries
Paperback
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $20.00
Publisher: Beauty School Editions LLC
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 120
Language: English
Approaching reading and writing as forms of divination, Scries navigates the dark territory of oracular poetics, bringing second sight to a strange range of interlocutors
-the extrasurrealist poetry of Joyce Mansour's Cris, a hungry ghost, the plant damiana, Tarovsky's Turin Horse, and Pandora. The last poem channels Margery Kempe, and Alice in Wonderland.
Praise for Workman's previous collections:
Absolutely feminine, disobedient, radiant, scathing. --Sarah Fox, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION
How to begin without comparing this book to the books that keep getting called 'home.' --Carrie Lorig, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION
END is an achievement in play. It is true joy. It is perfect gemini anxiety/flexibility and human strength, sitting with and passing through difficult fury and ugly love. --Feng Sun Chen, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION
This is a most ungrim grimoire. This is where to sit at a disaster. --Sharon Mesmer, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND
Surprisingly universal and welcoming. --Jennifer L. Knox, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND
Workman's artistic antennas are tuned to the civic mindfuck that characterizes our age. While we're both paralyzed and tantalized by the entanglement of fantasy and reality scripting our daily life, Workman's poetry seems at once to reflect the ethos of this world, while simultaneously rejecting it by making it entirely her own. --John Ebersole, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND
One can hear Breton's cry at the end of Nadja, 'Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.' Workman's work argues definitively for the imagination, for frolic, for the 'make' in 'make sense.' --James Wagner, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND
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