Sexting Ghosts
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Sexting Ghosts is a collection of poems by Joanna C. Valente. 'In Sexting Ghosts, Joanna Valente invites us to join them in their haunted psychiatrist's chair for a cinematic Q&A with the ghosts and gods of the future past. These poems together form an epic flush with oblique strategies for survival. Valente's arguments sear then soften, become inquiries, persistent efforts to either understand or to cut ties with what time has shed. Ghosts and humans alike know the exhausting experience of being a human trapped in a body. Ghosts, too, are jailed in their forms.' - Jasmine Dreame Wagner, author of On a Clear Day and Rings
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How do you grieve for someone, something still living? How do you grieve the dead without dying yourself? How do you grieve your living self while grieving the ghosts you carry while living? And how, finally, can any of us live in the midst of so much malicious effort to make our lives worthless? Joanna C. Valente's power- ful, precise SEXTING GHOSTS takes risks with form, voice, language and content to show us how. "Describe a usual day / I am shrinking while this tiny ball / grows another liver inside my lungs," Valente says, perhaps in a ghost's voice. Then, we're offered "the hands of two elk-faced / angels spilling medieval suns/ through their mouths as if to sing" us through "original sin, this / loneliness we are all born with." Sometimes, it's as if our ghosts are what keep us alive, ghosts we may not always be able to separate from our angels. Are we home to them, or they our homes after all? "[T]here is no home in america/for us." - Jay Besemer, author of Crybaby City, Chelate, Telephone and The Ways of the Monster
