What falls from the sky? What, exactly, is it crows say when they gather together? Should you trust a snake with a monocle? What does the poet see in her sleep? Read on. On The Flute Ship 'Castricum', the muse is a library is a man in a white shirt, the mud tablets of the law are still wet (there's time!), but hurry, the tourists are out in force. In these richly-imagined poems, Amy England quite literally recreates the art form, showing us in poem after poem new ways to dazzle. Yet she makes us, somehow, perfectly comfortable, right at home. Endlessly smart, sensuous, funny, these poems make us gasp with recognition and pleasure. They won't sit still: they perform for us.

The Flute Ship "Castricum"

Literature & Fiction

England, Amy

Poetry

Tupelo Press

What if your dreams could be given a material life of their own? What if your recollections of them were so vivid that, more than just recounting their logic, you could transcribe them visually for your reader? That's precisely what poet Amy England does in this stunning text and image collection. Her collages and dioramas are constructed from fabric and paper scraps, from the debris of conscious life. In this subconscious geography, we travel through the nightmares of the political, the paranoia of the responsible, and the tragedy of the critically aware. Often also charmingly funny, Amy England is the most lucid of dreamers.

For The Reckless Sleeper

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

American Letters & Commentary

Amy England's first Tupelo poetry collection was so distinctive and stimulating that she was said to have quite literally re-created the art form. In this new, extraordinary volume, she shows us that she was just getting started. Combining various mediums to depict and illuminate a unique vision that she experienced while visiting an archaeological excavation many years ago, England has rewritten the rules and fashioned a collection even more surprising. Drawings and photographs entwine with her astonishing poetry and prose to lavishly demonstrate how the fragments and rubble of history goad the imagination into picturing an original and newly created whole. With sharp, smart, and profoundly textured language, the author uses the compulsion of order and pattern, which poetry shares with science, to illustrate how we are influenced and even propelled through time by the weight of our classical past. Amy England is a true original, and this is a stunningly compelling and important work.

VICTORY & HER OPPOSITES

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