Laura Hinton's Mermaid Tenement Press has just released this new chapbook from Abigail Child. (I love the name "Mermaid Tenement" for the vision it summons of a mermaid flopping around in one of those kitchen bathtubs with feet I used to see in older New York buildings.)The chapbook, Counterclock, is described as the first part of "An Experiment in Autobiography" which Child read at the St. Marks Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry Club in 2007 and 2008. The cover image you see here is from Child's film The Future is Behind You.
The work starts:
Start here. Uncompensated tongue. Pressure point mortality periodicals linking the present to earlier structural loves. Read forward, sharp reds. The words take off. Think. It starts. Evaporation of certain volatiles stitched unto space hurtling forward. Hunker present to left stickling pins in a back hammer pile. Enrich the feeling. Elixir. Lucked Structure with which to
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