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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Letters Rescued from a Fire
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781963115833
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE: Letters Rescued from a Fire by Mark Fleckenstein is a fractured, obsessive, deeply intimate collection that moves through longing, memory, art, emotional collapse, and the impossible desire to reconstruct what has already vanished. Part poetry collection, part epistolary artifact, part meditation on obsession and survival, the book assembles left-handed correspondence from a brief but life-altering exchange between two artists whose connection burns long after contact ends.
Across letters, commentary, prose fragments, and poems threaded through recurring symbols of red shoes, birds, mirrors, windows, photographs, and unfinished conversations, Fleckenstein interrogates what happens when memory becomes both sanctuary and wound. The collection wrestles with the limits of language itself: how words fail, distort, seduce, memorialize, and sometimes imprison the people who depend on them most.
The poems move through dream logic and emotional excavation with startling vulnerability, tracing the psychic afterlife of desire, artistic awakening, abuse, regret, loneliness, and the strange endurance of hope. These pieces are not interested in neat resolution. Instead, they linger in the unstable space between devotion and delusion, intimacy and projection, imagination and reality.
At once tender, self-interrogating, and formally restless, WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE becomes an archive of emotional residue: a book about the conversations that continue long after silence takes over, and about the ways art attempts to rescue meaning from what could not be saved.
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