Bøger af Michael Bazzett

"I needed to laugh and wonder and wince and gasp. I needed to see all this glorious seeing. You need this book too."-Danez Smith

A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining-and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our present-day selves.

A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. “Your humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one by one,” as one poem puts it. Once dismembered, Bazzetts poems can re-member us and piece together the ways in which we once thought we knew ourselves, creating a new, strange sense of self. A meditation on who we are, who weve been, and what we might become, Bazzetts writing is like a note written in invisible ink: partially what we see on the page, but also but also the “many dozen doorways that we dont walk through each day.” You Must Remember This is a consistently slippery, enrapturing collection of poems.