The Other World

Winner of the 2019 Center for Book Arts chapbook contest, selected by Edwin Torres

With this work, the writer brings to our world a brilliantly cohesive other world, running parallel to a current existence, a present other. A cataclysmic landscape, which calls to question a continuous fluidity through our daily extinction—a quietly honed freefall that allows poetry and its underlying tendrils to reach beyond the same body as the new story. Presented as equal parts journal and world-making, this book tosses convention through the gyre of sentence, rhythm, line break, and a deft ear for re-idiomatic’ing poetic construct—to redefine a sort of experiential rebirth in book form. Gorgeous, smart, loose and tight…all at once.

Designed and printed by Keith Graham, this chapbook was printed letterpress at the Center with screen printing at the Robert Blackburn Printshop. Two-leaf map fold structure, 54 pages, 6.25 x 6.25 inches (closed), 18 x 24 inches (opened.)