Take It or Leave It (Shredded Ear, March 2025) is a sequence of “phonetic/cut up/spiritual translation-poems” from/inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s Un saison en enfar. The poems in Take It or Leave It do not stand alone but instead, in the spirit of Spicer’s Lorca, find resonance between Rimbaud’s hallucinations—his bridegrooms and his wine and his horrors—and a contemporary world of paranoia, vengeance, and proto-fascism. Published as Shredded Ear no. 1, this is from an edition of 77 copies, of which 26 are numbered A—Z and signed by the poet. Lokta wrappers used for covers vary across the edition; at times, title has been tipped on the cover using translucent paper. The lettered edition may be purchased on Granary Books here; the regular edition may be purchased here.
Artificial Respiration (TKS, December 2020) combines the domestic convention of the wall calendar and the Surrealist tradition of collage poetics into a collaborative artists’ book that includes twelve months plus calendrical coda. With poems by Conley Lowrance, collages by Sarah Monks, Artificial Respiration was printed in an edition of 77 copies, saddle-stitched in colored staples and signed by the poet and artist. In a lavender glassine envelope, with rubber-stamped cover and calendar insert designed by TKS publisher M.C. Kinniburgh. Artificial Respiration may be purchased on Granary Books here.
Blazing Stadium, three poems from Artificial Respiration, August 2020
Brokelyn, four poems, January, 2019
Bombay Gin, two poems, September, 2018
The Stockholm Review of Literature, two poems, November 20, 2016
The California Journal of Poetics, Transcription, August 31, 2016
Uut Poetry, “Exeunt omnes,” February 12, 2016
Noble/Gas Qtrly, Anticipation, December 17, 2015
Empty Mirror, five poems, January 30th, 2015
The Glasgow Review of Books, three poems, January 23rd, 2015
Underwater New York, Dreamland, 1911, September 24th, 2014
Columbia Journal, three poems, April 28, 2014
Counterexample Poetics, Self-Portrait at a Distance, June 2012
Gadfly, Two Poems
Word Riot, Scenes of Insomnia
Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke, Two poems
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, In the Absence of C
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