OPTIONAL SAINT

OPTIONAL SAINTFrom the press: The witty, playful poems in Optional Saint stretch sound to sound as they probe the intersections of creativity, translation, religion, and sexuality with curiosity and elasticity, asking: What do we inherit through family, language, and tradition, and what do we create anew? What happens when the sacred and profane collide? Here, nothing is fixed or reasonable, and transformation is an unending process: A poem is only true in the

examining why they chose to get into self-publishing

and Latin America in order to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism

Laura Moriarty

readying for launch

legendary music critic Ian Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and ‘cross-colour’ awareness was born

offset by a strain of Hopkins’s providential empiricism

We have to remain adaptable

creativity think

their throat

in turn stemming from the Latin word natura (course of things

From the press: The picturesque landscape of East Switzerland is home to a diminishing number of Hänggiturme and Tröckneturme: peculiar yet monumental wooden towers once used for drying dyed textiles

author of The Shadow King