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You've always suspected the Universe is stranger, wilder and more on your side than anyone's told you. Swimming Pool Inside the Sun is a collection of poems and stories that work like sublime spells, validating those suspicions. Moving from mythology to monsoon, from the Knight of Voices to New Year's Eve in Y2K Manhattan, volcanic saturnalia and fern raves, applying SPF 50 and soaring up into the mesosphere where sprites flash scarlet over thunderclouds: Laurie Perez delivers a sweet plunge into impossible spaces where it turns out you are the occasion each star rises to behold. This bright little book is a celebration, a steady dose of soulful wanderlust, a mad scientist mixing poolside cocktails, inviting you to dive in and be refreshed. In language that is scientifically precise and mythopoetically wild, Laurie Perez traces the arc from grief to alchemy, from the cellular to the cosmic. These poems and stories gather keys to quantum physics, tarot, Celtic myths and organic chemistry and use them to unlock a state of being that is earthy, reverent, rebellious and celestial. ""DNA, your brazen epic - like Odysseus, never quite escaping war... the gods keep their distance and you, sometimes hopeful, more often beleaguered, battle memes and earworms to keep transcribing sunsets..."" -Ars Poetica, SWIMMING POOL INSIDE THE SUN ""Is a comet speeding toward the Sun fatally doomed and tragic? Or could it be the sungrazer is finally arriving - not bounced off by gravity to swing back out into the void, but merging with the flame and fusion it's been hustling toward for eons... What will its icy matter now become?"" -Sungrazer, SWIMMING POOL INSIDE THE SUN

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""Strangely intimate. Strangely nuclear and cosmic at the same time...Strangely euphoric in the way it hits secret passworded buttons that open niches, cracks and gates to hidden gardens in the mind that unveil insights."" -Praveer Shukla, on THE LOOK OF AMIE MARTINE by Laurie Perez ""Perez's body of work inspires active participation and rewards a reader who's willing to do a little digging. By leading her audience off the predictable path to excavate alchemy lurking in our everyday world, human history, physics and the classics, she embraces the primary directive of enduring literary fiction: to illuminate the depths of the human condition and make us better, more alive for the experience."" -A Body of Work ""Riveting. Compelling. I had to read it twice to appreciate the intelligent nuances."" -Marlene Cheng, Goodreads, on THE POWER OF AMIE MARTINE

Author Information

Novelist and creative writing fellowship recipient, Laurie Perez's poetry and stories have been featured in The Junction, Scrittura, P.S. I Love You, Write Under the Moon, Sky Collection and other journals. She lives with her family on tribal land in the heart of metro Phoenix, Arizona.

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