77 pages
Published 2022
Read February 5
Rating: N/A
This one, like HELL IS REAL, is an anthology curated by one of my writer friends, and contains one of my pieces (in this case, a word-search poem). Reviewing it with any semblance of objectivity is impossible, but that's okay, because all of my reviews are utterly subjective anyway.
Aura had the idea of doing a small anthology of poems centered around dreams and nightmares, and invited indie writers she knew to take part. A few also contributed short prose pieces. The end result is a lovely, lavish hardback volume, gorgeously illustrated by Kate Doughty.
The poems tend (as you might expect) toward the strange and ethereal. Bodies shift and become subsumed. Some are disembodied altogether, others ache and spill water and blood from too-real forms. There are many drownings.
Despite the loose, casual nature of this book’s selection process, I’m happy to report that everyone involved gave it their utmost. Not one piece feels phoned in. A running list of some of my favorites:
"I Dream of Water" by Kirsten Reneau
"Sue Dream" by Heath Joseph Wooten
"Passionfruit" by Anoushka Kumar
"Bangungot" by Keana Aguila Labra
"Pedagogy, or How My Father Taught Me to Drive" by Nova Wang
"Liminal Heat" by Kaitlyn Crow
"Confession in the Church of the Moon" by June Lin
"Last Day of Summer: A Reductive Triptych" by Tommy Blake
"Albatross" by Jack Apollo Hartley
“As Good as Fear” by Kate Doughty
“I Called the Moon ‘Mama’” by Carson Sandell
“Free-Falling to the Other Plane” by Laura Ma
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