IMPASTORAL

IMPASTORALPoetry. Omnidawn, 2022. Paperback, 112 pages. 6"x9" From the press: Poems that blur the boundaries of language and species, inviting us to imagine a new world. The expansive reworking of language in Impastoral flies through the possible voices of outsides and insidesslug, probe, horse carriage, sewer, potted plant, lab rat, vampire, bot fly, giant cow. Language, in Brandan Griffins poetry, is neither human nor nonhuman, and it undoes that very idea of

brought forth by a voice that oscillates between humorous and plaintive tones—“I invent stories

From the press: A crash course in 21st century gender trouble

In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema

and the tricks it plays to cover up its true impact on the planet

It is a 150 year old story about Oregon and the story of a house in Oregon

a little reckless

Anaïs Duplan

Adolescence is a vexed condition fraught with metamorphoses both terrible and holy

Cecilia Vicuña

utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham attempted to acquire funding and government assistance in building an unorthodox prison of ambiguous surveillance and guard

The poems in this book perform miracles of clarity in situations where there is no clarity

That adolescence has happened and is about to happen but is never that which is happening