Our Pornography and other disaster songs by BJ Soloy
The winner of the 2018 Slope Book Prize, Our Pornography and other disaster songs was chosen by jury member Ocean Vuong, who writes:
Our Pornography is a crystalline, dusky and charmingly stubborn American text whose power rests in its desire to complicate linear time into a constellation of epicenters. This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment, and ushers it all, like a river carrying the grit and sparkle, truth and secrets of its undertows, toward a future not yet accounted for because the present still promises discovery. And what discoveries here in these staccato and ruptured lines that, despite everything, find a way to offer the world anew.
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