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An upward-looking shot between two rows of green trees. The sun is low but glowing against the green leaves. The road between the trees cannot be seen, and a few raindrops have collected on the window or camera lens, layering over the image.

About (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)

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

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Black and white short of two rows of trees on either side of an unseen road, as seen from below. A few raindrops have collected on the window or camera lens, overlaying the trees. In white text across the center, an all-caps title reads “The Eyes Have Woods.” This is the title screen from a film-poem.

Upcoming Events

Everything is canceled! I’m working on some online ways to launch and celebrate my forthcoming book, including a series of short film-poems.

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About Shanna

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.

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A magazine page showing part of a poem called "Where the wall meets the river."

Current Work

New poems have recently appeared in the Nation, the American Poetry Review, jubilat, and are forthcoming elsewhere.

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New book in 2020!

New book in 2020!

(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) is now available for preorder from Black Lawrence Press, selected from their 2018 Open Reading Period.

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Recent posts

  • First review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)! December 3, 2020
  • (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) is here! October 30, 2020
  • Closed Caption collage series May 27, 2020
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