Rocket Fantastic Paperback by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2018-09-18)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 96 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892554928
• Item Weight: 163.3 grams
• Dimensions: 22.83 x 15.11 x 0.69 cm

Now in paperback, a spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family.

Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer.

“A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time.”—Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of Apocalyptic Swing, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, and Rocket Fantastic. She is Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books.