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Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians is a book about translation (""I have translated Sappho into ladybug"") and transformation where ""the difference between naked and nude is candied fruit."" The poet inhabits an animated queer universe where creatures and objects speak, and her own fluid being shifts shape in songs of cohabitation. It is also a book about gardening, growth, and the people and ideas that nourish us. In fact, it is a sort of cookbook where Santalucia combines bitter, sour, salty, and sweet words with wit and wild originality for maximum poetry umami. This collection has something to satisfy even the most discriminating literary palate. -Elaine Equi, author of Out of the BlankNicole Santalucia's Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians is a sustained, irreverent celebration. This surreal, wildly imaginative and wildly associative collection pays tribute to queer ancestors and traces a poetic lineage to Sappho, Mary Oliver, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Ruth Stone, Robert Duncan, and Ashbery again, among many others. All the while Santalucia insists on a new post-confessional poetic full of absurdist humor, wit, and probing insight. Often prose-driven and accessible even it its wilding, the work is part chiastic rewriting, and part unspooling manifesto that foregrounds lesbian power and joy while queering heteronormative culture and discovering the primal, fablelike interconnectedness of species, environment, and art. A great read. An ambitious, daring, and unsettling achievement. -Peter Covino, translator of What Sex Is Death Nicole Santalucia's Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians evokes the wonder and difficulty of the domestic present through its playful language and innovative form. This is a book bursting with evidence of the wild landscape of a lesbian body growing older, one which demands witness and conversation.ching-in chen, author of Shiny CityLesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians. Technically, that's math. And while the singular elements in Nicole Santalucia's poems are never interchangeable, they do contain multitudes-both the torso and the severed head. Does it feel good to be always all: a haunted self and a boobied gardening dinosaur? Oh, hell no. So what's the alternative? Be simple? "". . . purple in plain speech is how I imagine testicles."" Be cold? ""I no longer deny my whale heart."" Be [gulp] quiet? ""This exhilaration would have turned into pain, had I not been able to share it with you.""Good luck with that. Best to pull on your Lesbian Dinosaurs/Dinosaur Lesbians pants, lob some blubber, and feel it all-from rage and shame to gratitude, love, and awe.-Jennifer L. Knox, author of Crushing ItStrap yourself in for a ride that is Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians, and you won't be sorry-though I can't guarantee that the seatbelt won't leave bruises. This book is a centrifuge of awesome, an oscillation between zero gravity lightness and G forces that feel like they might flatten you like a pancake. This is a spiky adventure of queer formal innovation, whipsmart imagery, and a relationship to the body that Andre Breton would find disorienting. Just pick up the book. You won't put it down. -Jason Schneiderman, author of Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire

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Nicole Santalucia is also the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books, 2020), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press, 2018), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the Charlotte Mew Chapbook Prize, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, the Arkana Literary Review Editor's Choice Award, and her work has received honorable mentions for the Allen Ginsberg Award, Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest, and the Oscar Wilde Award. She is a Professor of English, the Director of First-Year Writing, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, and she serves on the steering committee of the Institute for Social Inclusion at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She has led poetry workshops in the Cumberland County Prison, Cumberland County Public Libraries, Boys & Girls Clubs, nursing homes, the YWCA, LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania's GSA Summits, and she's the founder of The Binghamton Poetry Project (now called The Binghamton Writers Project). Santalucia received the Faculty of the Year Award and the Gender Study Program's Vagina-Warrior Award for fostering inclusiveness at Shippensburg University. She received her M.F.A. from The New School University and her Ph.D. from Binghamton University. She is currently working towards her M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Shippensburg University.

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