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Chapbook | Poetry |
4" x 4.75", saddle-sewn, French flaps, 36 pp | Nov. 2008
Click here to see the entire, fold-out cover Vehicular homicide, relationship dissolution by imperceptible degrees, genocide, terror by war, linguistic disorientation—they are not equivalent, yet they interact in Forever No Lo, through the self-consciously philosophical and the mundane swallowing international crisis. The setting is Portugal, but it is also East Oakland, Rwanda, Chicago, Iraq, nowhere discernible. The language fragments multivocally in broken Portuguese, elementary French, and dialectical English. This serial poem asks what comes of global and personal tragedy—what grows, haunts, decays, redeems—in the gut, on the news, or from local communities. About the Author Teresa K. Miller received her MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, ZYZZYVA, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPOesias, Coconut, DIAGRAM, Shampoo, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland. Excerpts from Forever No Lo
Readings & events (in reverse chronological order) June 19, 2009 : San Francisco, CA February 21, 2009 December 6, 2008: San Francisco, CA |
