Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time. She is Editor at Large for Los Angeles Review of Books and Assistant Professor and Walker Percy Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, the Bernard F. Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing. “A vertiginous, wondering, painful, uncannily and deeply sexy book.” It is the most compelling thing I have read this year, without contest, and so very timely.” Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time.” “A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. Mythic and musical, erogenous yet wide-eyed, this is a dazzling book by a space-age troubadour of American poetry. Its poems are populated by figures both familial and fabular: a prodigal brother and a relentless father the Hermit, Dowager, and Major General and, perhaps most strikingly, the Bandleader, embodiment of sexual, capitalistic, and political dominance. Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic transfigures the landscape and language of gender and the body. These poems balance wildness and control in a fearless treatment of eros, identity, trauma, and all that resists easy categorization. For Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing Triangle 'And yes,' the speaker in 'I Had a Mane Once' reminds readers, 'I was every inch an animal.' A range of characters compose a makeshift cast-or family-fluid enough to include a hermit, a cowboy, and a dowager.
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