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Okwui Okpokwasili
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: once teeth bones coral : by Kimberly Alidio

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: once teeth bones coral :
Kimberly Alidio
$18 • 2020 • 144 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-9988439-4-0

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: once teeth bones coral :
Kimberly Alidio
$18 • 2020 • 144 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-9988439-4-0

: once teeth bones coral :
Kimberly Alidio
$18 • 2020 • 144 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-9988439-4-0

Praise

In : once teeth bones coral :, Kimberly Alidio pulls language apart and what remains is as striking as it is spare. The form here is a container, haunting in its spaciousness, and gestures towards landscapes, borders, trauma, tenderness, home. Alidio’s poems reveal the “luminous familiar,” traces of the interior that make visible the simultaneity of histories and futures, the possibilities inherent in queer connection, kinship, and refusal. These fragments are precise and expansive, and will resonate for a very long time.

—cheena marie lo

this is a book of echoing and overhearing : breath and trembling : desert and sky : woundedness and gossip : intellectual wandering : time zones, moans, unmanned cocktails, medicine, grief and self-care : kimberly alidio resurfacing : landscapes of queered intimacies : for you to hold close : mucus and saliva : humor and loss : a dyke bar : a rubberplant : compound words and timeless histories : intersectional identities : porous and monumental : once teeth bones coral : now slowing you down : now filling you up :

—Gabrielle Civil

These elemental findings, borrowings, interlocking soundings, overheard poesis-talk shine here in collaboration with the sure hand and ear of Kimberly Alidio. We have a purring queering poem machine, a mix tape spitting forth enigmas for the tongue. Plots, struggles, like shooting stars. 

“letspaywerelosinglight” is a movie script. 

 arroyo

       onlyretro

       dark

            pull

is a creation and destruction myth. “Bloodiron” is a forcefield. Follow the recombinant runes forming new constellations to meet an uncertain “languaging” future. It’s a wild ride.

—Anne Waldman

Links

2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist

May 2021 Bestseller at Small Press Distribution

20 Books to Read for Pride by Kundiman

CLMP’s Filipino American History Month Reading List

Lambda Literary’s August 2020 Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books

Alicia Mascarenhas reviews for The Capilano Review

Cecily Chen reviews for Entropy

MT Vallarta reviews for The Bind

Rebecca Stoddard reviews for American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table

Rob McLennan reviews on his blog

Kazim Ali on “: rock // neverended :” for Poetry Society of America


Kimberly Alidio is a poet, historian, educator, sound experimenter, and the author of why letter ellipses (selva oscura);  : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist; a cell of falls (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs);  and after projects the resound (Black Radish).  She is a 3 Hole Press Publishing Fellow and contingent faculty at Bard Prison Initiative and Bard Early College. They have recently taught for Bard’s Language and Thinking Program, and created poetry workshops for Naropa’s Summer Writing Program and Kundiman. Their work has been anthologized in Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora; Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America; Sinister Wisdom: Asian Lesbians; Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene; Puñeta: Pilipinx Political Poetry; and The Best of Kore Press.

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