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It has been a long time since a text spoke to me so viscerally about desire, self, and dreaming things into existence. So so so good, and love the bonus odes to Sam Ace essays at the end
These poems took my breath away. The intensity of their desire (esp. in Home in three days. Don't wash.) is hot hot hot and often quite brutal. This new joint edition includes a moving introduction -- letters between Sam and Linda -- and a range of short essays at the back by peers and descendants from Eileen Myles and Pamela Sneed to Cameron Awkward-Rich and Andrea Lawlor.
I LOVE this book! First, I knew Linda Smukler years ago in the 1970s, we were in a writing group together and I loved her writing. Then we lost touch. But her writing stayed in my mind and in a folder in my files. Every once and a while I did a web search, so I knew when these books came out, but for some reason I did not get them. Then I found Linda as Samuel Ace, and connected through Facebook. And now Samuel Ace has brought Linda Smukler's words back to us, as well as a dialogue between their...