Inside My Electric City - Chapbook

Inside My Electric City

by Caylin Capra-Thomas

Cover Art: Brooke Shaden | Cover & Interior Design: Alban Fischer
Paperback, 36 pages (Digital Download)
December 31, 2016, ISBN 978-1-936919-43-7

About Inside My Electric City
Haunted and visceral, Inside My Electric City is slight, but not spare. Each small poem is packed full as a getaway suitcase with dangerous implements, predatory animals, and the relics of ruined places, lives, and relationships. Even its use of white space suggests presence instead of absence- an omen of something to come. Lovers are "future aperture[s,]" mouths are "wild, uninhabited," and waiting to be filled with jackals. These openings indicate that what is possible is also doomed. And yet, the poems maintain a kind of reverence for all the calamity. The poems insist "We are not choking. / We are settling our accounts."

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