cra-que-lure by Elizeya Quate

$13.99

 

“Like all/the hours/we left/lingering/at the/door-/ways,” these poems are an image-drawn map; a tender and liminal road trip of heart break with photo-worthy roadside attractions.

–Lisa Galloway, author of the poetry chapbook Liminal: A Life of Cleavage.

 

Quate gives otherwise quotidian nomenclature so much purpose; each burst of image shakes the page, each crack of heart runs deep, no hairline—

–Christine No, poet & essayist, author of (RE)Writing Mother

 

Alluring, playful but profound, these poems emerge through breaks in language that force the reader to question, in order to solve the puzzle of the poem, what such a break means—why the cracking of the language is essential to its delivery. The short lines and choreographed fractures reveal the slipperiness of language, how a slight tilt in any direction can make one thing its opposite. The charm of Craquelure is that it keeps us watching: each turn, each bend in the poem we don’t know: is it more light coming through: which way will it go: and what illumine. We watch, each poem a little sunrise, each day a little different.

–Evan Karp, creator of Quiet Lightning

 

 

 

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cra-que-lure

by Elizeya Quate

“Illustrations by Katie Williams”

$13.99, paper

978-1-63534-587-2

2018

Elizeya Quate is the nom of Edmund Zagorin, a writer and performer based in the Bay Area. Raised in Tenleytown DC, Quate’s first book The Face of Our Town (KERNPUNKT Press, 2016) is a fun series of interconnected stories about the serious fun of interconnectedness. In December 2016, The Face of Our Town Kindle ebook achieved #1 Amazon Bestseller status in the category of Popular Culture: Antiques & Collectibles, and #8 Bestseller in the category of Short Story Collections. Quate’s publications include a nomination for Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3 (“Peru, Illinois” in Axolotl, 2015), Ground Fresh Thursday, E-ratio, Big Lucks, Killer Whale, Intrinsick Magazine, Sparkle + Blink, Work to a calm, Maudlin House, Sleepingfish, Tahoma Literary Review, Minor Literatures, 3Elements Review, Chicago Literati, Two Cities Review, Joyland Michigan Writer’s Series, The American Prospect, The Huffington Post, Critical Moment and the anthology Writing That Risks: New Work From Beyond The Mainstream (Redbridge Press, 2013). Quate has read at Quiet Lightning, Perfectly Queer, Inside StoryTime, tNY Pre-AWP Showcase and has performed versions of Seminar on Autosophy at Think Tank Gallery, Adobe Books, The Convent, The Last Bookstore and the Pataphysical Research and Metachanics Union. Quate writes book reviews for The Los Angeles Review, and has made interactive talk/art for The Gallery Project, Start Gallery, Zajia Lab, Come Out & Play Festival and Odd Salon.

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