Breaking the Rules Poetry Bundle

This poetry bundle includes:

Dream of No One but Myself by D.M. Bradford

Dream of No One but Myself is a lyrical unravelling of the trauma-memoir-as-proof-it’s-now-handled motif. Using verse, transformed photos, self-erasure, and family keepsakes, this book asks instead what does it look like if we consider narrative as always in motion, unstable, and frayed?

Grey All Over by Andrea Actis

Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness.

An assemblage of “evidence” recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and received by Jeff (greyallover@yahoo.com), junk mail from false prophets, an annotated excerpt from Laura (Riding) Jackson’s “The Serious Angels: A True Story,” and transcripts of Actis’ dreams, conversations, and messages to the dead, Grey All Over not only celebrates a rare, close, complicated father-daughter bond, it also boldly expands the empathetic and critical capacities of poetry itself.

The Cyborg Anthology by Lindsay B-e

Though it’s not your typical Norton Anthology of Literature, this book is organized like one–split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. Only this time, the poets are Cyborgs writing after a cataclysmic event and they are writing about loss and the world to come.

Showcasing a range of forms and ideas, the collection carries echoes of speculative fiction’s best: Le Guin, Brunner and Monáe.