This collection is, from the get-go, parenthetical, by which I mean layered horizontally in voice, architecture, inflection, and sound—the sound of the ever-fading world, and the soundtrack of the human interior. The tone is a shimmering dread with a backbeat of wonder. —DIANE SEUSS
Everything is canceled! I’m working on some online ways to launch and celebrate my forthcoming book, including a series of short film-poems.
Shanna Compton is the author of Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence, 2020), Brink (Bloof, 2013), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof, 2008), Down Spooky (Open Book Award Winner, Winnow, 2005), and several chapbooks. She's currently writing The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem. Her poetry and essays are widely published, appearing in Best American Poetry, the Nation, American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere.
New poems have recently appeared in the Nation, the American Poetry Review, jubilat, and are forthcoming elsewhere.
(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) is now available for preorder from Black Lawrence Press, selected from their 2018 Open Reading Period.