The poet Dot Devota is the author of THE DIVISION OF LABOR (Rescue Press, 2015), AND THE GIRLS WORRIED TERRIBLY (Noemi Press, 2014), The Eternal Wall (Book*hug), and Dept. of Posthumous Letters (Argos Books).
Poetry.Why did the girls worry terribly? The title was found in Oliver Statler's book, The Black Ship Scroll. This has been an important book to my partner, Brandon Shimoda. A caption beneath a sketch of two women in kimonos reads: "The foreigners s...
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Poetry. Dot Devota's THE DIVISION OF LABOR, selected as the Editor's Choice for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize, tethers the eerie echoes of political and cultural rhetoric to a stunning and documentary peripatetic prophecy; "topic sentences" d...
Poetry. "[O]ne / writes a journal // to create the / guise of reading / creation. // It's all already / not there!," writes Dot Devota in her newest collection of explosive, visionary rage-songs sung in the private-public space of a journal toward t...