Morocco, Matthew Savoca and Kendra Grant Malone

Morocco

Matthew Savoca and Kendra Grant Malone

Publisher: Dark Sky Books
PubDate: 11/11/2011
ISBN: 9780983067474
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $10.00
Temporarily Out of Stock
Pages: 116
 

Poetry. Here is a book, a low-slung bulb lighting a tall dark room, a book big enough to question and small enough to love. Written in treaty by Matthew Savoca and Kendra Grant Malone, here is a book of time and together and lonely and wanting. Knife-words edges out, lines bursting and splitting the table long, get to know MOROCCO. It already knows you. These poems are naked and bright, speaking from a tall dark room to all the spaces in between. A love poem, yes. A camera readied, yes. Pictures worth a thousand words ground down to dust, MOROCCO comes together now.

"I took two sleeping pills at midnight and opened up MOROCCO. It's 3:19."—Giancarlo DiTrapano

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Matthew Savoca is the author of long love poem with descriptive title, and Kendra Grant Malone is the author of Everything Is Quiet, both published by Scrambler Books in 2010. They live in New York.


“It’s easy to be a cynic when it comes to poetry. Like, ‘It’s all been done before, so why bother?’ I guess that I was feeling cynical for days (weeks, months, years, lifetimes) before reading MOROCCO by Kendra Grant Malone and Matthew Savoca, but after reading their book I felt awash in the new. A new cool stream of poetry where anything is possible. Where words become perception, where we feel with words as if the sounds of language are our hands once more. Isn’t that what we want from poetry? To bloom again. That’s what I want. I know that’s what you want, too. Read this book.”
Dorothea Lasky

“MOROCCO is a brutally spare document of an amalgam of emotions wrought from bodies wrecked by love finding love again in one another. Somehow Malone & Savoca have together found a way to speak of urine & bruising & webcam erections & complex guilt in the same breath as longing & waiting & commiseration & many other more nameless emotions evoked through a kind of rare space between people that help keep us hungry & alive. The result is moving and surprisingly candid & funny & hurtful by turns, in the end producing something larger & more honest than so many elucidations of waking love contained in language could ever be.”
Blake Butler

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