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kiss & release
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781956692877
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Feb 13 2024
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A meditation in a rush, kiss & release is driven by the intense voice of an observant, insistent & emotional I. He's an urban gay man who admits he's here with a date, but you never know how the night will end. He has several loves, at least a few fuckboys, and many questions:
most spells are made with words & broken by a kiss, why not the other way around?
what is more intimate than a whisper?
how long will yr wife be gone?
Have you ever noticed it? asks Love Is Finished Again, a poem cycle revealed in seven movements. The sequence muses on how we end up in the same place over & over in sex & love & everything. The only real change is through decay that makes ruins, noseless busts, caves of Pompeii, brothel rooms. Even language & communication decay, as a number of mashup and collaborative poems explore.
Are you ready for the beats? This book is a party and a romance. It's a lucid dream.
This poetry accuses, brags, confesses, obsesses, panics & promises. It discos, raves & swings. It falls in love during a hookup but gets bored at a four-way. It woos the Zodiac; tries to get its virginity back; invents sex as a religion, mythologizes masculinity & succumbs to its devils; kills a snake to resurrect a lover; gives a blowjob at a dirty book store; goes to see bad performance art; looks for love & finds it everywhere/wherever.
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