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In john compton's blacked out borderland from an exponential crisis, the poems are tinder for the multitudinous resurgences of the speaker's memories, affection, queerness and adoration, often in honour of a fellow poet, which is, to some extent, autobiographical storytelling. john is a prolific poet, and with this collection of poems, he has outdone himself. —Onyedịkachi Chinedu
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blacked out borderland from an exponential crisis is a fierce, erotic collection. The poems within are taut and claustrophobic with their clipped lines and bristling, barely contained energy. Reading them is like undressing a wound to find a naked ache for justice: for the earth under capitalist assault, for queer lives under threat of American violence. But beyond rage we find eros and humor (“i live where trump is god. / his flags flap / on the back of big trucks— / the scripture / of small penises.”). The poems, despite their spare and frequently uniform appearance, feel expansive. Through them the speaker’s self expands, intimately and viscerally inhabiting objects, lives, and events: felled trees, 9/11, the beloved, the pandemic (“we ruin every good thing / hoping to stop death”), killed animals, the cosmos (“i am an asteroid; / an ocean. / deal with me!”). compton transcends metaphor to grasp the real. —Tristan Beach
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Good lord. I read the whole collection with my eyebrows furrowed hard. That is a very hard, brutal collection. The dead-writer poems are genius. I could not get over "before age broke her body across the floor like a chair." Totally brutal all the way through, and very delicate--made me very nervous and sick. Well done. —ella corder
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john compton has a way of completely destroying you with a phrase, quietly, in a soft southern drawl with a grin on his face. He will write “the empty only a symptom” or “how many bullets can fit into seven mouths” and turn your arms invisible. His poetry comes out of the ether, but is also body-borne, like a “bird / waiting to fly / from the hyoid bone.” You will find yourself reading and being instantly captured and crushed by his words as in “decay, give me a gift” to the point where you cannot stop reading for fear of missing any explosions. As a poet, john is a silent assassin, and one not to be trifled with. —Scott Ferry, author of Skinless in the Cereal Aisle
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@poetjohncompton.bsky.social
poet—order my books in the link below: linktr.ee/poetjohncompton
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