The Articulations by Elizabeth K. Switaj / Amouroboros by Amelia K.
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POETRY: Experimental, feminist, corporeal
Publication Date: November 12, 2024
ISBN: 9798332104770
Presented in a tête-bêche format, you will receive two poetry collections in one book.
The Articulations by Elizabeth K. Switaj
The Articulations explores ideas of the body through lines gleaned from medical texts written prior to 1910. Occupying the space between collage and erasure, these poems are a magpie-intelligence’s approach to understanding humanity and a neurodivergent self-fashioning. Insistent anaphora forms and re-forms bodily and linguistic structures.
Amouroboros by Amelia K.
"What if endings and beginnings made the same shape?" Amelia K.'s Amouroboros, comprised of journal entries written during and after an abusive relationship, examines what remains and what leaves in a love that eats itself.
Publication Date: November 12, 2024
ISBN: 9798332104770
Presented in a tête-bêche format, you will receive two poetry collections in one book.
The Articulations by Elizabeth K. Switaj
The Articulations explores ideas of the body through lines gleaned from medical texts written prior to 1910. Occupying the space between collage and erasure, these poems are a magpie-intelligence’s approach to understanding humanity and a neurodivergent self-fashioning. Insistent anaphora forms and re-forms bodily and linguistic structures.
Amouroboros by Amelia K.
"What if endings and beginnings made the same shape?" Amelia K.'s Amouroboros, comprised of journal entries written during and after an abusive relationship, examines what remains and what leaves in a love that eats itself.
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Elizabeth Kate Switaj’s second full-length collection of poetry, The Bringers of Fruit: An Oratorio (11:11 Press, 2022) won the 2023 Whirling Prize. She is also the author of James Joyce’s
Teaching Life and Methods (Palgrave, 2016). She holds a PhD in English from Queen’s University Belfast and an MFA in Poetics & Creative Writing from the now-defunct New College of California. She currently works at the College of the Marshall Islands on Majuro Atoll in the central Pacific. |
In Amelia K.’s hypnotic Amouroborous, cycles of desire and devotion, violence and love, poem and prayer, are broken and mended and broken again. Longing takes its circular, self-consuming shape in the form of journal entries like prose poems recovered (divined) from the poet’s past self, trapped in an abusive relationship. What does it mean to love an abuser? What survives that love? In this book, what survives is sacred, playful, fearless; a voice and a music that ask us to attend to the pain, and the beauty, of “a praying human, a preyed animal.” What a force Amelia K.'s mind is. I cannot wait to keep following it.
- Amelia Ada, co-host of the podcast You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie To You and author of Hard and Glad (Dopamine / Semiotexte) A visceral, diaristic story of the attempted taming of the human animal through God, mirrors, scars, retinol, and ritual. I devoured every word. - Jessica DeFino, beauty reporter and critic Amelia K.. a Best of the Net winner (Nonfiction, 2024), lives in Georgia. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Dirt, Are.na, Skylight 47, and others. Her website is bio.site/ameliak.
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