Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems - by Jennifer Lewis & Jessie Carver (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Red Light Lit's debut poetry anthology explores love, relationships, sexuality, and gender-and the corporeal spaces they inhabit. Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems features the work of 33 poets and 8 artists, with 10 black-and-white photographs and 2 illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems features the work of 33 poets and 8 artists, with 10 black-and-white photographs and 2 illustrations. The poems and photographs in these pages speak to each other--some in conversation, some in call and response, some in reflection. The anthology attempts to answer questions like: Who do we become when we lose ourselves to lust, when we become dependent on or addicted to the chemistry of another? What happens when we try to pin down the moment when lust turns to love? What happens when we betray someone we love or when we are betrayed? The poems and artwork in this book offer a meaningful reminder of the importance of love, intimacy, identity, sexuality, gender, and feminism.</p><p>Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems does not contain sweet, lighthearted verses about romance. Even in "Faith," the most reverent poem of the anthology, Josey Rose Duncan tenderly states, "You are the bacteria to my gutless marine worm." This book is not pretty, yet each poet's honesty is incredibly beautiful. This anthology contains a range of perspectives and voices extending across different sexual orientations, gender identities, ethnicities, and lived experiences.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<em>Love Is the Drug</em> is so shimmering and personal. These little moments when we achieve, with the aid of another, some kind of sublime, and time and space sort of dissolve and we're right where it feels we're meant to live--those little moments are quick sparkles, these efforts to pin them down in poetry feel as sweaty and muscular, as desperate and full of passion, as the sex itself. Each one a little flare, a little death, an <em>I was here</em>." --Michelle Tea, author of <em>Against Memoir </em>and <em>Black Wave</em></p><p>"<em>Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems</em> is infinitely readable. Next time you need to be consoled or need to be reminded that you're not the only one having troubles with love, I recommend spending a few hours with this slim, many-voiced collection of poetry. It will cure whatever ails you. If I were a doctor, I'd tell you to take two and call me in the morning." --Carl Adamshick, author of <em>Saint Friend</em></p><p>"Reader beware: These audacious, daring, often heartbreaking poems will shove love, with all its messy, unwieldy glory, in your face. Featuring the work of 33 poets and 8 artists, this astonishing collection explores the underbelly of love from remarkably divergent perspectives. Yet each poet in some way posits the question: How can love survive in today's world, with its high expectations and infinite distractions? These poems, and the edgy art that accompanies them, go a long way toward answering that question." --Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of <em>Junkie Wife</em></p><p>"Poetry is my first love, and with this spectacular collection, I am reminded why. The aliveness I felt as I read each complex and unique piece in this book had me shaking my fist at the sky with knowing, had me tearing up, had me excited, had me heartbroken, had me undone. This book is the drug, this book is the love, this book is life." --Jennifer Pastiloff, author of <em>On Being Human</em></p><p>"Love, in fact, is a drug--a cocktail really, of noradrenaline, oxytocin, dopamine. In love, we are on drugs, and out of love we crave the next hit. Maybe that's why there's so much sugar in these pages, sweets and syrups employed as metaphor for what the Beloved withholds, the drug to set the lover free. Reader, prick up your ears! A choir of unruly, ardent, and embodied poems is singing." --Lisa Wells, author of <em>The Fix</em></p><p>"Within this book lives the profound work of pain turned into poetry, and that poetry, into power. These poems hold the best, most beautiful, brutal, sharp, and tender words of these wise and generous writers. My gratitude for their brilliance and generosity is endless. Elixir and companion, keep this book close. Let it leave your side only so that it may be shared with others." --Reema Zaman, author of <em>I Am Yours</em></p><br>
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