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Author: Jessica Comola

Publisher: Horse Less Press (2016)

“Jessica Comola’s debut collection marks her as a poet for whom language is stranger than truth. Her ear tells her things the eye cannot perceive, and she shares those rarely heard cadences with us.”—Evie Shockley

“A funny, mournful contempo apocalypse-narrative-Ezekialesque, lightly; fast-morphing Rimbaudian prose, spangly; Celanian neologisms, cast conversationally. These poems are fancy, not in an imagination-on-the-cheap sense but in an astral-observatory-at-the-online-mall sense: Comola’s “I” is an avatar in an infinite game riven with glitches and challenges, where our world’s data-driven imperatives are reflected in cosmic-funhouse style. This book is huge, brainiac fun, and it reads dizzyingly fast.”—Catherine Wagner