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Referential Body
Rosie's work is devastatingly honest, but rife with levity. These poems articulate pain with candor while bravely retaining the space for joy and for humor. Rosie is a poet who is able to capture something very genuine and human, and to communicate it to the page with all its truthful chaos intact.
— Julien Baker
Rosie Accola’s poems double as a playlist, a cosmo article, a confessional booth, or a literary analysis of a book you haven’t read yet but suddenly want to. The poems in this collection are like those mirrors that show your face so closely that you can count each pore, and you end up having to laugh. They’re proof that there is weird joy in our discomfort and always a reason to kiss and be kissed.
— Scout Kelly
Rosie Accola’s collection of poems is a testament to how friendship can form and build your own survival. “All I’m trying to do is emit light.” She says, a quarter of the way in, and she does. In “Referential Body” Rosie welcomes the reader to a world where the idea of their own honest hope is not a longing, but an incessant need, through her detailed experience of seeing the world for just a little bit more than what it is by pulling you to the present moment. By capturing specific moments in time, whether they entail grief and uncertainty, sacred queer joy, or platonic intimacy, Rosie’s words accompany the feelings that demand to be felt in a comfortable wisdom of what it means to navigate a conscious awareness of growing older as a young person.
— Morgan Martinez
https://ghostcitypress.com/books/refe...
— Julien Baker
Rosie Accola’s poems double as a playlist, a cosmo article, a confessional booth, or a literary analysis of a book you haven’t read yet but suddenly want to. The poems in this collection are like those mirrors that show your face so closely that you can count each pore, and you end up having to laugh. They’re proof that there is weird joy in our discomfort and always a reason to kiss and be kissed.
— Scout Kelly
Rosie Accola’s collection of poems is a testament to how friendship can form and build your own survival. “All I’m trying to do is emit light.” She says, a quarter of the way in, and she does. In “Referential Body” Rosie welcomes the reader to a world where the idea of their own honest hope is not a longing, but an incessant need, through her detailed experience of seeing the world for just a little bit more than what it is by pulling you to the present moment. By capturing specific moments in time, whether they entail grief and uncertainty, sacred queer joy, or platonic intimacy, Rosie’s words accompany the feelings that demand to be felt in a comfortable wisdom of what it means to navigate a conscious awareness of growing older as a young person.
— Morgan Martinez
https://ghostcitypress.com/books/refe...
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76 pages, Paperback
Published March 23, 2019
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June 7, 2019
Beautiful!
Moving!
Inspiring!
Honest!
Heartfelt!
Moving!
Inspiring!
Honest!
Heartfelt!
December 15, 2023
One of the most raw, honest, humored, and memorable poetry I have ever read.
December 29, 2021
I really enjoyed this poetry by Rosie Accola, a local-to-me writer. Funny story is I gifted this book to someone but then was gifted it by my son.
This book is a terrific collection of rumination, self awareness and portrait poems. The details are clear and well managed. The cadence carries you along. You can take them in as a story or find a deeper meaning too. I read several aloud to my 21 year old daughter amazed at the storytelling conciseness.
This collection is ageless but leans toward age early-mid 20s based on cultural references (which I loved). Amongst other writings, I hope Rosie will create a collection approximately each decade so we can watch her perspectives unfold with age.
I look forward to reading more by her. Read it straight through and then go back to chew on it some more.
Here was one I especially wanted to share.
Greater Than (IV)
I think of poems as the banter between songs,
attentive spaces reserved for tuning a guitar or looking for a pick —
the sheepish reassurance that someone, somewhere, is listening, too.
This book is a terrific collection of rumination, self awareness and portrait poems. The details are clear and well managed. The cadence carries you along. You can take them in as a story or find a deeper meaning too. I read several aloud to my 21 year old daughter amazed at the storytelling conciseness.
This collection is ageless but leans toward age early-mid 20s based on cultural references (which I loved). Amongst other writings, I hope Rosie will create a collection approximately each decade so we can watch her perspectives unfold with age.
I look forward to reading more by her. Read it straight through and then go back to chew on it some more.
Here was one I especially wanted to share.
Greater Than (IV)
I think of poems as the banter between songs,
attentive spaces reserved for tuning a guitar or looking for a pick —
the sheepish reassurance that someone, somewhere, is listening, too.
April 13, 2024
really, truly wonderful
July 13, 2024
Contemplative, yearning, at turns funny and unsettling.
October 24, 2022
It's having a late night conversation with a friend. Cozy, thoughtful, and inspiring. Rosie wraps you in a warm hug while giving you something to think about.
November 5, 2022
Insightful, uncomfortable, empowering. Her vision is intoxicating, as if she is giving us a glimpse into a world of dichotomies: acceptance/judgement, pain/forgiveness, familiarity/strangeness, love/hate. Rosie's awareness in the moment is complex and utterly revealing.
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