Poetry. BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN is the second collaboration between Kelly Schirmann and Tyler Brewington after their chapbook, Nature Machine (Poor Claudia, 2014). "Reading Tyler Brewington &amp; Kelly Schirmann's split-book BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN is like the best sleepover ever, that late-night freakout time when the real gets giddy &amp; Truth-or-Dare demands only truth, more truth &amp; forever truth. The two individually written halves of the book use the same title, BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN, &amp; as Brewington collects moments of attention &amp; knotting &amp; scattering into a disjunctive &amp; projective wisdom, Schirmann deals &amp; redeals the cards of her experiences, not to compete but to show how each hand can be tragic &amp; beautiful. Both poets work in a confessionalism that owes as much to Adrienne Rich &amp; O'Hara as it does to Catullus &amp; entwined within one spine these two demonstrate the permeability of our experiences &amp; relationships, how we climb &amp; fall off these cliffs of love &amp; fear &amp; bodies &amp; joy."—Mathias Svalina

Boyfriend Mountain

Literature & Fiction

Schirmann, Kelly

BREWINGTON, TYLER

Poetry

Poor Claudia

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Music. A meditation on messages, POPULAR MUSIC asks: how does art make itself heard? The poems of Kelly Schirmann's debut full-length collection offer a unique voice, investigating the spaces between-between the singer and the audience; the lyrics and the message. Like a pop song, these poems encourage and distract, inviting the reader and listener in, wanting to tell you things that seem intimate, while telling them to everyone. They want to know: is anyone listening? And reader, we hope you are.

Popular Music

Black Ocean

A hybrid collection of poetry and prose, The New World follows the attempts, failures, and re-attempts at understanding and articulating an era of immense social upheaval, political corruption, and environmental consequence. In five distinct sections, the book refracts, explores and investigates these global themes through the realm of the personal and private. Old journals and notes are revisited as a way of understanding the self and its various revisions and mistakes. The New Worldtells the story of escapism and arrival, growth and decay, and despair and optimism as they occur, often simultaneously, within the mind of our narrator. The book asks, "How do you write poems in a country like this?", inviting every reader to take stock of themselves, and to reassess the ways "One human world / [empties] completely / into the bigger one."

The New World

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Boyfriend Mountain

Popular Music

The New World