sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics

by Francesca Lisette

sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics is a three-part interrogation of love, gender, ritual and the body. It heralds a new kind of poetic thinking, one that seeks to articulate and enact a mode of resistance to the obstinacy of present conditions, by focusing on embodiment, tenderness and optimism. It wants to break new paths and contribute to a collective imagining of a different future. It is a record of and a practice towards healing.

Genres: Poetry

104 pages, Paperback

Published November 5, 2018

About the author

Francesca Lisette is a poet, astrologer, and interdisciplinary artist from south London. They are the author of two collections of poetry, performance writing and artistic ephemera: Teens (Mountain, 2012) and sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics (Boiler House Press, 2018).
Lisette has performed in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. Their poetry has been translated into German, Czech and Portuguese. Francesca currently lives in Denver, Colorado, where they are studying for a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature.

Reviews

[Seymour Glass · Rating 5 out of 5]

'The things we like best about people are the things that come out when they are unselfconscious."

[Zack]

loved this book :)

[Saoirse Wall · Rating 4 out of 5]

these poems are dense in a way that i found hard to engage w at first but as i made my way thru i settled into them && there are so many very sexy beautiful moments.

‘the sexual gap of your mouth (a dark rose) — love/bloody spittle/ vomit.
We constitute ourselves as liquid rubber running through
the town’s tar pits.’