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Cicada Sex-Songs
"Swarm of nocturnal intelligence.
Cicadas unceasing in the confectionary air."
- Jorie Graham
Edited by Cat Dossett;
published in May 2020.
Contents:
- “Call Me” by Tiffany Belieu
- “Cicadetta montana” by Zachary Bos
- “Orchestra” by Magdalene Farren
- “How I Met You” by Diana Adams
- “Summer’s Night Serenade” by Tianna Grosch
- “A tryst in Athol, Massachusetts” by Emma-Louise Adams
- “Cicadas respond to Billy Collins” by Nina Murray
- “Cicada Sex Magick” by Robert Murphy
- “Brood X” by Erik Kennedy
- “Shell on a Branch” by Marnie Heenan
Editor's note:
“Here in New England, as I write in this tail end of April, the days are growing warmer and longer. As animals awaken from their winter slumber, the air fills with song: of dogs, of children, of birds and bugs. What better herald for summer than the sound of cicadas? Symbols of mortality and passion, their mysterious mating rituals and life cycle have lured the attention of poets across the world. Sap-eaters, decade-sleepers, with quivering tymbal and camouflaged body—food for some, metaphors for others. As humidity reaches its peak and the school year looms, cicada sex-songs quiver on. Presented in the pages that follow is a bouquet of poetry from writers from New England to New Zealand, dedicated to those annual songs of cicadas, sensual, sirenic, incessant, buzzing…” - CLD
About the editor: Cat Dossett is Chapbooks Editor of Pen & Anvil Press and author of two comics: Laika, on the first dog in space, and Vessel, a confessional tale of watching Adam Driver movies in the bathtub. Her art and writing can be found in publications including Burn, New England Review of Books, and Sobotka Literary Magazine, and on the cover of these four animal chapbooks. She is on Twitter, Medium and Instagram.
Each paid copy sold of these chapbooks will ship with a bonus postcard, featuring original art of the four theme animals (pictured at right).
About our illustrator: Catherine Enwright is a doctoral candidate studying English literature at Boston College, and a 2019-2020 Bookbuilders of Boston scholarship recipient.
Cover titles in Besom and Parker, with interior text set in Minion and Whitney. Published by Hawk & Whippoorwill, an imprint of Pen & Anvil Press. For permissions or bulk ordering, please contact us by email.
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