{ Build Yourself A Boat ~ poems ~ Camonghne Felix }

Build Yourself A Boat
Camonghne Felix
Haymarket Books, 2019

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I didn’t know art could do this. Do these. As in, I didn’t know a vision could project itself as singular and, with that projection, distract its own shape long enough to give periphery a stomach. Camonghne Felix is an asker and a teller. A thinker one rethinks so that one might get the chance to pose the same question a second time. How was fire born? Fire was born plural. Is nostalgia real? The aftermath of origin is real. Can you describe embodiment? Description is alone; description cannot swim.

Not my answers. Build Yourself A Boat is a book that marks its words and comes back for them.

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reflection by Barton Smock

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book is here:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1274-build-yourself-a-boat