"are we rocking with this?" is the debut collection from poet Jenkin Benson, and it's available for a song when you buy it before its launch date on August 9th.
This book is bringing back neologism. It's traversing the landscapes of language and politics, the landscape of landscapes. It's in the heart of America causing heart attacks. It is, as Zan de Parry puts it on the back of the book, "to avoid the common materials of news and art. robust blood sugar levels heavy on the blot test. to avoid the common materials of news and art with the hope that we're still somehow able to take it in differently, the car turns on a song." It's something you need to buy.
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“fields of opportunity” pleats of gold leaf
and khaki too “hell yes!” potholes
glass boot filled with maltodextrin
a bronze spider focus group
near the otherwise locustish thruway
adjacent insured floodplain
hogpiss winter the jitters
never any traffic reunions
march the 10th 10 dolors
afeasted tuesday pre-easter itch
i predict the inmost debates
of 10s of compulsions today
as always still sleeting
headforthed fistmouth
rebehave the next 20
counting boss’s weather isodisease
shoulder march’s sodden knitting
an inculcation of cure
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Jenkin Benson is a poet and musician from central Iowa.
He is currently writing his dissertation in South Bend, Indiana.
He is also the poetry editor for Cult. Magazine.
Feel free to peruse his work here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson
are we rocking with this? is his debut full-length of poetry.
