Poetry. OBJECTS FOR A FOG DEATH is a series of odes to images and objects, and to the "you" responsible for distancing these images and objects from mortal relationships. With this distance comes a profound desire and a heightening awareness of earthly proximity. Through the accompanying hypnagogic verses, oceans quiet the voice while disorientation hurls it into a temporary place—hovering overhead or shying away in the murk. Is a river an object? Is fog an object? Or for that matter, is fog a place? Behind this book lies a call for rescue from confinement and immobility, from the ineffability of touch. Out of this fog springs forth the coeval shriek of something that will not be reduced to love.

Objects for a Fog Death

Literature & Fiction

Doxsee, Julie

Poetry

Black Ocean

Poetry. In her debut collection Julie Doxsee's finely wrought lyric poems create a world operating according to the rules of dream-logic. Both exquisite and unsettling, her poems twist the reader with every line break and surprise of language. "Spare, bright, and sharp these poems spark, tossing up unexpected words, making strange connections, inventing vocabulary, and in general, cracking open the natural world and letting us watch it tick. Intimate and worldly at the same time, Julie Doxsee is a surprising and deeply gifted poet, and this, her first book, glows in the dark"--Cole Swensen.

Undersleep

Octopus Books

Poetry. THE NEXT MONSTERS navigates the cobbles of human monsterness. The image of a white horse in the road produces a sense of human belonging, while a domestic dispute fractures that calm, exposing a new monster. These poetic mini-essays churn with violence and love, healing and torture—one always eclipsing the other—and offer challenges to the limitations of identity. THE NEXT MONSTERS embraces the alienation, imagination, and catharsis that scaffold the self.

The Next Monsters

<p>Review\n"The Next Monsters is an accomplished volume, one that’s as carefully crafted as it is culturally astute. Her new collection is a wonderful addition to an already thought-provoking body of work."—Colorado Review, on The Next Monsters\n"Julie Doxsee's Objects for a Fog Death can be seen as the intensive attempt to evoke barely-rendered emotions into words—even to invent new feelings outright."—Bookslut on Objects for a Fog Death\n"Doxsee’s poems are shattered mirrors; they are fractured, jagged. If you stare at them long enough, you’ll uncover patterns in the chaos, hints of a larger image that was perhaps banished to a new and frightening dimension when the mirror was broken."—Heavy Feather Review, on The Next Monsters\n"That Doxsee’s poems are able to simultaneously resist the order of the senses and achieve a crystalline-like order on the page is one of the major accomplishments of this book. Nearly all of these poems are written in packed, terse couplets where each line is taut as a wire. Yet, Doxsee’s line and stanza breaks maximize the tension and energy of her language, urging us into her music, pushing us over an edge we didn’t even know was there."—The Volta on Objects for a Fog Death\nThe fifth book of poetry by a true poet's poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation.<br />
In Julie Doxsee’s The Fastening, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned by hauntingly vicious origins. Landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melt into snowman slush or gash the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks.\nThe poet wants to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe.</p>

The Fastening

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Objects for a Fog Death

Undersleep

The Next Monsters

The Fastening