When Phoenix Flooded

by Wren Cuidadx Romero-Gilhooly

The transcendent anti-capitalist realist poems of When Phoenix Flooded range widely, both in subject and in form, driven by a fluid process of fragmentation and transformation through which they sprawl across the page, like the urban landscape where they're set, and break apart before reforming with a new unity in a sonnet, an ode, a burning haiden. But even here, near the imperial border, as the world ends and St. Longinus walks into 7-11 with "blue tape around his bicep from giving blood" and a question for you, there's light and joy, and there's just enough time to joke about dancing on Joe Arpaio's grave, may the day soon come.

Genres: Poetry

40 pages, Unbound

First published October 26, 2019

Reviews

[Bogi Takács]

This was very strong both content-wise and also when it came to structural and formal experimentation. One of my favorites of the Trans Women Writers Collective chapbook series.
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Source of the book: Bought with my own money (Patreon subscription)