Flung Throne

Author: Cody-Rose Clevidence

Publisher: Ahsahta Press (2018)

A glitchy trip through the poetics of the (un)natural, Flung Throne is a descent through and disassembly of language that rages and bursts apart before receding back into the earth. Emerging here is a poetics against the poetic, a reckoning of word and world. Prophetic, angry, yet still reaching for light, author Cody-Rose Clevidence notes the work's dark undercurrents, ". . . we, psychologically speaking, are ill equipped to bear the throes of our own mental, social, and emotional neural chemistry, our consciousness is a cruel trick the universe has played on the world/ourselves. I was feeling all that and also I was falling in love with the woods I found myself in." Awed and repulsed by humanity's capacities—even that of a lyric gaze—Clevidence's second collection distills writing to its phonemic essences and situates them in the kind of wilderness that overtakes abandoned parking lots when nobody is looking.