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all the time more than anything
by Emily Zogbi
Full-length Paper
$22.99
979-8-88838-388-9
2023
all the time more than anything is an interrogation of memory and ghosts, family and time, magic and fear. While some poems speak to Janis Joplin and Emily Dickinson, others hear from Medea and Kitty Genovese. The book is populated by a chorus of women, talking all at once, who appear at the supermarket, on the beach, in a 7-11 parking lot, waiting for someone to come home, or hoping no one comes home at all. all the time more than anything explores the voices and people we collect across generations, be it through mental illness, trauma, grief, recipes, remedies, or stories. The poems sit with a variety of ghosts—the therapist, the mother, the mentor, the killer—but one voice rings through the clutter: a lonely speaker, tasked with becoming herself.
Emily Zogbi is a writer, editor and poet from Long Island. In 2021, she earned her MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Chronogram, Rumble Fish Quarterly, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, Half Mystic, and Ocean State Review, among others. Zogbi was the recipient of the 2021 Sappho Poetry Prize from Palette Poetry. She has worked in book publishing, entertainment journalism, childcare, and unemployment, but she mostly enjoys estate sales, bad movies, and collecting rocks. She wishes she had been a dancer.
ellie a. –
beautiful poetry, i laughed i cried i mourned…. a real work of art. can’t wait to reread it