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A new collection of psychoanalytically inspired poems, from poets including Cindy Zeiher, Erik Kennedy, Korn, Ben Brown, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Brandon Meland, John Milton Bunch and others.
The collection - ranging from freeform to haikus, are to varying degrees engaged with questions of psychoanalysis, materialism and subjectivity. They are prefaced by an essay on psychoanalysis and poetry by Emmalea Russo.
Emmalea Russo is a writer, astrologer, and teacher. Her books of poetry are G (2018), Wave Archive (2019), Confetti (2022), and Magenta (2023). Recent poems and essays have appeared in Artforum, BOMB, Spike Art Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Compact, Granta, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has been a writer in residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York and 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles and a visiting critic at Parsons School of Design and The Art Institute of Cincinnati. She has taught courses on poetry, philosophy, and art at various institutions including Saint Peters University, Northeastern University, The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and GCAS. Her books have been reviewed in The Chicago Review, The Yale Review, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. She keeps a substack newsletter, Cosmic Edges and teaches classes on writing, literature, art, philosophy, and the occult. Her first novel, Vivienne, is forthcoming in September.