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Neil De la Flor constructs an introspective and linguistically intricate backdrop upon which he and Maureen Seaton engage in a genre-defying conversation of original meta-analytic philosophies: The Boat with a Girl's Heart as collage, the act of keeping Maureen alive on the page, freedom, cyclones, softballs, two queens standing on the tip of a glow stick - this collection becomes both elegy and celebration, a layered palimpsest of queer friendship and poetic wisdom. - Clayre Benzadón, author of Moon as Salted Lemon This surreal elegy, in the form of an imagined dialogue, was written after Maureen Seaton passed in August 2023. Neil de la Flor argues, confronts, and ultimately comes to terms with the death of his friend and collaborator.

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NEIL DE LA FLOR is a writer, educator, artist, and executive director of Reading Queer, a Miami-based organization dedicated to promoting and fostering queer literary culture in South Florida. His first book, Almost Dorothy, won the 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and was published in 2010. Marsh Hawk also published his second collection, An Elephant's Memory of Blizzards in 2013.Of Sinéad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds, his premier collaboration with Maureen Seaton, Sarah Burghauser writes in the Lambda Literary Review: ""Lusty, swanky, and well-toned, these poems are playful without being light, and smart without being esoteric. Read this book to witness an inspiring dexterity with language. Read this book for a loving sucker-punch to the brain. Read this book in a place where it is okay to lol, or even to loofah.""

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