NATIONAL LUBE

NATIONAL LUBEPoetry. speCt!, 2024. Paperback, 134 pages. 8"x5. 5"x0. 5" From the press: National Lube is hot and cool, breathless and measured, languid and urgentlike all the best encounters. And these antipodes are enjambed with infinite care. The poems flow into one another, carried from one beat to the next, one page to the next, on the aria of a pure wild lyric. They merge and slide, dropping down a steamy windowpane through which we glimpse a vividly sensed

including Rasheed Araeen (Pakistan) and Mahmood Jamal (Pakistan)

Discover how being overdressed is a social dilemma and how moving from one colour to another is an almost geographical choice

shown through a lens particular to the time and place of its initial publication

the poet Robert Browning

there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home

Renee Gladman invites us to accompany her protagonists on their treks into

building the images gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the letters themselves

and to recognize it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end

all of which include a palm tree

rather than performed—but this book takes it to a whole new level

the music of Neutral Milk Hotel)

While other presses created extraordinary publications