SARA LARSEN – MERRY HELL
ISBN 978-1-091998-97-1. Published December 2014.
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Sara Larsen is a poet based in Oakland, CA.
Her previous publications include NOVUS, A,a,a,a,a, The Hallucinated, After Sappho and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous.
With David Brazil, she produced over sixty issues of the Bay Area zine Try!
She is involved in the organizing committee for the Bay Area Public School, an autonomous free school at the Omni Commons in Oakland.
MERRY HELL is dedicated to Helen of Troy, to the women of the Paris Commune, and “to my friends, now.” Commons and communes past and present come up against patriarchal law, capitalism, military and police violence, logics of cash and sacrifice, in lines that spread out, that elongate in notated waves of sight and breath. The poem is urgent, witty and this only an excerpt – the full book will appear from Atelos Press in 2015.
24pp, card covers, side-stapled.
[Review by Yamuph Piklé here.]