oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems - Softcover

C. Russell Price (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810145227 ISBN 13: 9780810145221

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Appalachian genderqueer punk writer C. Russell Price’s first full-length poetry collection is a somatic grimoire exploring desire, gender, and sexuality in multiverse littered with flowers and product placement. Part pop culture bubblegum lip smack, part battle cry, this collection asks, What is radical vengeance and does true survivorship from sexual trauma exist only in fantasy, or is it an attainable reality?

Price’s cinematic approach to language and scene is on full display, as well as their dark humor and resilience. Within these pages, the surreal is familiar and grief is a national pastime. If the end is near, who among us would not put on Fleetwood Mac? Who would not clean up their eyeliner just a smidge? This collection pulses with the beat that follows destruction (whether human or natural), the moment the jaw unhinges. These poems are not for pearl clutchers. They are for those who have already felt their private apocalypse.

About this title

About the Author

C. RUSSELL PRICE is originally from Glade Spring, Virginia, but now lives in Chicago. They are a Lambda Fellow in Poetry, a Ragdale Fellow, a Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree, an essayist, and a poet. They are the author of a chapbook, Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other, and they are currently at work on a collection of essays, Everyone’s Doing It; They Just Aren’t Telling You. Their work has appeared in the Boston Review, Court Green, DIAGRAM, Iron Horse Literary Review, Lambda Literary, Nimrod International, PANK, and elsewhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810145227
• ISBN 13: 9780810145221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136