The Pulp vs. The Throne

by Carrie Lorig

In the boundless and strange The Pulp vs. The Throne, Carrie Lorig collides poetic and essay forms, and rides their cataclysmic energy through extremes of language and expression. These complex, wildly attentive poems and essays form crises of intimacy that join our lives with Lorig's exploding, essential imagination.

Genres: Poetry

180 pages, Paperback

First published June 9, 2015

About the author

I am a flower called / HagStar.

Reviews

[Jared Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

i am threshed by the flail this book is i will not stop reading

[Oliver · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would be lying if I said I understood all of what was happening here. I think a bit of it was kind of ars poética, writing about writing, and things deeply encoded in metaphors. Didn’t hate what I was able to decipher, at least.

[Cary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book of poetry i've read all year. A year of reading a lot of good poetry but this took me far and deep into some arcane waters. I thought about violence. I thought about love. December 31, 2015.

[Zack]

I loved it. It took a good five or six sittings to get through this one but it was still a page turner. An epic in its own terms. Introspective that's outrospective. Black fire on white fire and white fire on black fire.

[Stacey Teague · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book means a lot to me!

[Brandon Amico · Rating 4 out of 5]

A force of nature, if language is nature. And this book convinced me that it is.