Poetry by Ashley Toliver

September 18, 2018 • 6 x 9 • 80 pages • 978-1-56689-526-2

Generous, penetrating, relentlessly sonic poems that record the creative potential of the body and the boundaries of the self.

From Spectra:

Dear night possessor: your funeral barge rocked tight in the fisting water makes small winter melodies. The light ends a pattern we learned to stupefy by motion or admitting away. A statutory list puts the blame on the hour. You move as I move, whistling measures in salted grass, patient and guarded processions. At night, the line is a current to wade through: older names sifting past the flotsam, the water rising up to here. 

About the Author

Ashley Toliver is the author of the chapbook Ideal Machine. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, Cave Canem, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2013.

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Praise for Spectra