all the time more than anything by Emily Zogbi

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Emily Zogbi‘s first collection weaves the abstract and the accessible so cleanly, tightly and honestly that it should be put on the top of any poetry lovers to read pile. Zogbi tackles the extremely difficult subjects of personal tragedy and what it means to be a woman with all of the excitement and control of a ballerina with a sledgehammer. Her work is by no means clumsy. She smashes only that which deserves to be broken – callousness, misogyny, and silence – then builds something beautiful from the rubble. Zogbi’s handling of the personal is inspiring: quiet and simple when necessary, loud and brash when worthy, and wrapped in delicate metaphors when nothing else will do.”

–Jared Singer, author of Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

 

Emily Zogbi’s all the time more than anything comes to us from a world that feels slightly off kilter, where the living and the dead mingle in kitchens and bedrooms and forests and asylums. She explores this world confidently, comfortably, recording each strangeness encountered there with a clear if not entirely unsuspicious eye, whether it’s a “refrigerator door swinging open / like the flag of a surrendering army” or a dragonfly with “the face of a lion and the hands of a person / I loved whose voice was not a voice // I recognized.” While Zogbi’s poems often proceed like waking dreams, what steers them around the easy trap of surrealism is her deep sense of empathy. This book is a rare and entrancing gift.”

–Mark Bibbins, author of 13th Balloon

 

 

 

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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.

1 review for all the time more than anything by Emily Zogbi

  1. ellie a.

    beautiful poetry, i laughed i cried i mourned…. a real work of art. can’t wait to reread it

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