I'm totally killing your vibes is one-part phantasmagoria, one-part brutal document, with equal measures of irony and sincerity.
It is a book compulsively drawn to a world in which identity and performance have become indistinguishable, where the squelch and seep of feelings frustrate our safety nets of logic and ethics, and violence and inadequacy are so often the corollaries of love.
I'm totally killing your vibes is a book of poems concerning the exuberant performance, and the manic dissolution, of the self. It moves through the slow, fragmented dissolve of a relationship, via a tableaux vivant of assorted, itinerant characters, and an extended, darkly comic dialogue with the feedback of literary, academic, and everyday life. A final, long-form prose poem extends the book's interrogation of consumption as our contemporary mode of self-construction, of masculinity, and of desire.
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Are you happy, she asks?THE SEA IS SPREAD AND CLEAVED AND FURLED
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(@BloodaxeBooks, 20 October 2022, ebook, 112 pages, #ARC from the publisher via @ edelweiss_squad)
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This is a new poet for me. I enjoyed I'm totally killing your vibes a lot. The style of poems was very different from the stuff I usually read, more like prose using poetic language. The poems are raw and powerful. They felt very personal as well.
