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With Her Hair on Fire, Roadside Press
Reminiscent of the City Lights Pocket Poets Series in both size and scope, these 26 prose poems explore, then quietly explode, what we know of familiar terrains. Whether taking time for rest after a visit from houseguests, deciphering the peculiar rituals of church, or recalling a string of old loves come and gone, each speaker occupies a space between quiet and clamor. Her domain is the bedrock beneath love, friendship, work, and family. She may break it apart and stitch it back together, but the seams are always visible. These poems aim to complicate how we situate ourselves in a wounded world, obsessively pulling up the bandage.
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COVER DESIGN BY JAMES GRIFFIN
There’s a lovely meander to Christy Prahl's prose poems, a precision, a grace, a natural drift that follows the path a mind wanders through memory, emotion, and sensation. They move freely in multiple directions, from wry to tender to surreal, pinning down small moments like butterflies to a spreading board. I could read a thousand pages of them. —Justin Hamm, author of O Death and Drinking Guinness With the Dead
There are so many interesting narrators / speakers in this collection, and I trust them all. Everyone knows their own joy and hurt. An entire universe of people trying to find a way to love and work and survive happens on these pages. There are railroads. There are hotdogs. Punkers show up to hear Joey Ramone. Hummingbirds show up at the feeder, ready to fight for sugar. The chickens will wake you up before they become dinner. I hear Denis Johnson in these pieces. I hear Jean Rhys. I hear the magnitude of Prahl’s imagination. I feel like I could quote every piece in this collection. Open this book and you’ll stop the world to finish it.”— Dave Newman, author of Better than The Best American Poetry
“Prahl’s collection bursts with melodious brevity, packing a punch. Each piece is stunningly wrapped and delivered to the reader page after page as a glimpse into a sacred time and place. With Her Hair on Fire, is powerful, yet subtle, unforgettable. Read it! You’ll be happy you did.”
— Jennifer Juneau, author of Maz
Now Available
We Are Reckless
1st Runner-Up for Chicago Reader's
Best New Poetry Collection by a Chicagoan, 2023!​
"These poems boldly ask how we define a self, a marriage, and a family via eerie and frightening worlds. We Are Reckless is a dazzling debut." -Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The Animal is Chemical and The New Nudity
"I love the wild curiosity of this book, its attention to the off-kilter, the liminal, the often unseen and unacknowledged. I love the way nothing is beneath the notice of these searching, pulsing, vibrantly alive poems." -Kasey Jueds, author of Keeper and The Thicket
Cornerstone Press,
paperback,
106 pages
ISBN# 978-1960329028
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