Image Credit: Jay Heike via Unsplash “i wanted to be laura palmer,/ even when i saw her wrapped in plastic,/with blue lips and dead eyes./i wasn’t supposed to want that,/but i did,” the speaker says in Juliette van der Molen’s poem, “I Wanted to be Laura Palmer.” Thirty years ago, when Twin Peaks first aired,…
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This Week, I Read Kristin Garth: Flutter: A Southern Gothic Fever Dream
Image Credit: Biel Morro via Unsplash In Kristin Garth’s book, Flutter: A Southern Gothic Fever Dream, Sylvia Dandridge is a sickly and imaginative heiress. She lives out on Longleaf Estate, where she spends most of her days alone, dreaming up other worlds that fill the isolated grandeur that surrounds her. A bee demon, spectral mermaids,…
This Week, I Read Kristin Garth, Tianna G. Hansen, and Justin Karcher’s A Victorian Dollhousing Ceremony
Image Credit: David Hofmann This week, I read A Victorian Dollhousing Ceremony by Kristin Garth, Tianna G. Hansen, and Justin Karcher. This is a dark fantasy, comprised of poems which fit together to form an operatic narrative collection, told in three voices: the Wizard, the Doll, and the Firebird. The Doll and the Firebird are…
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