Overview

""It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing,"" Vanessa Roveto, acclaimed author of bodys, begins her book within the remnants of a car crash, fragmenting identity, grief, and heart. Beginning with the death of daddy, the ""I"" soon meshes with whatever and whomever she comes into contact with-strangers, actors, a Covid crush. She absorbs these people and objects, dispersing them into the Southern California landscape, the Uncanny Valley, warping time and naturalizing dreams. Documenting a period of both global and personal loss, Roveto crafts a book-length poem that weighs heavier than the Ego in L.A. Splintering Self between Other and palm trees in the summer heat, Mulholland Dive spins a Lynchian setting within a feminine eruption of alluring language, fluked romance, and the aftershocks of grief.

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9781960988553

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"Praise for bodys ""In this inventive and arrestingly funny debut, Roveto unequivocally makes the familiar strange as she places human bodies in a seemingly endless array of contexts to produce striking and even disturbing juxtapositions. Through imaginative poems linked by voice and theme, Roveto takes the spectacle of modern consumption and flips it all upside-down."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""This stunningly strange debut of poetry, a sequence of oddly off-kilter poems, reads like Mad Libs on acid and will stick to the inside of your skull. A refreshing, disarming collection, which includes the single most exquisite appearances of 'jeggings' (leggings resembling jeans) in American poetry to date."" --Booklist"

Author Information

Vanessa Roveto is the author of two books of poetry, bodys and a women, and the novella The Valley (a void). She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.

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