Surprise Castle
Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems: A Poetry Anthology

Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems: A Poetry Anthology - Paperback

$11.99
$16.00
-25%
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Jennifer Lewis (Editor), Jessie Carver (Editor)Publish date:2018-07-09Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:Red Light Lit PressISBN-13:9780999889503ISBN-10:999889508UPC:9780999889503Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCSF9DMMDS

Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems features the work of 33 poets and 8 artists, with 10 black-and-white photographs and 2 illustrations. The poems and photographs in these pages speak to each other--some in conversation, some in call and response, some in reflection. The anthology attempts to answer questions like: Who do we become when we lose ourselves to lust, when we become dependent on or addicted to the chemistry of another? What happens when we try to pin down the moment when lust turns to love? What happens when we betray someone we love or when we are betrayed? The poems and artwork in this book offer a meaningful reminder of the importance of love, intimacy, identity, sexuality, gender, and feminism.

Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems does not contain sweet, lighthearted verses about romance. Even in "Faith," the most reverent poem of the anthology, Josey Rose Duncan tenderly states, "You are the bacteria to my gutless marine worm." This book is not pretty, yet each poet's honesty is incredibly beautiful. This anthology contains a range of perspectives and voices extending across different sexual orientations, gender identities, ethnicities, and lived experiences.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Red Light Lit PressISBN-13:9780999889503ISBN-10:999889508UPC:9780999889503Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCSF9DMMDS
Carver, Jessie: - Jessie Carver is an editor and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon, but grew up on a farm in the borderlands of New Mexico. She has edited many books and magazines, including Bitch magazine (2010 to the present); What About the Rest of Your Life by Sung Yim (2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist); The End of My Career by Martha Grover (2016 Oregon Book Awards finalist); and Life Begins at Incorporation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors. Jessie is the former manager of poetry acquisitions at Ooligan Press and a former poetry acquisitions editor at Blue Mesa Review. When she's not editing and writing for other people, Jessie is busy with her own writing (her fiction can be found in Entropy and Watershed Review, and she co-authored the 2011 book Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution) and as an adjunct professor of writing and editing at Portland State University.Lewis, Jennifer: - Jennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her short story, The New Low, was the winner of Nomadic Press Bindle Award, forthcoming this fall of 2018. In June 2017, she was the 1st runner-up for the Los Angeles Review Creative Non-Fiction Award for Holy Communion. Her fiction has been published in in Cosmonaut's Avenue, Eleven Eleven, Fourteen Hills Press, and Midnight Breakfast. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015 and was the recipient of the Leo Litwak award for creative non-fiction in 2012 and for fiction in 2015.
Publisher: Red Light Lit Press

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All