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Books

  • SOMETHING’S MISSING IN THIS MUSEUM
  • The Rattle Egg by Terri Witek
  • WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry
  • Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry
  • Poesia Visual 5
  • The Rape Kit
  • Body Switch
  • First Shot At Fort Sumter / Possum
  • Exit Island
  • The Shipwreck Dress
  • Carnal World
  • Fools & Crows
  • Robert Lowell & Life Studies

Exit Island

Poems by Terri Witek

Exit Island is a Blue Plato Special that seeks to remake nothing less than the language. Witek’s work (but really play) tops Whitman sexed with Carson, unleashing multi-vocal, -tongued, -genred, and just plain multi-poetry in extremis: word bubble, snakework, doll clothes, with a tender ear and a wildness metaphysical and physical.

—Terese Svoboda

Terri Witek’s Exit Island is a book of voyages, both terrestrial and temporal—explorations mythical and poetic. The reigning deities are Ariadne and Fernando Pessoa, and in verse lyrics and experimental. Witek creates a world filled with snake handlers, sea nymphs, sea chants, and mutinies. Hold on, dear reader, this is a book like no other, a swirling microcosm of the tragic and playful, of betrayal and deep and abiding love.

—Barbara Hamby

Terri Witek takes us on a journey deep inside, inside a particularly well-attuned imagination, as well as to a place of collective knowing. In this fine poet’s hands the actual world is broken up and rearranged into a kaleidoscopic vision of a love affair which spans time and space. This is a book wet with the sea and its uncertainties, in all their possible manifestations, yet the moments on dry land are also breathtaking.

—Nick Flynn

Hardcover Limited Edition

Exit Island is available in a 26-copy limited edition hardcover:

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Selections

  • What do we sing to a man who’s drowning?
  • The Day You Left // Square Rigged Sales
  • Night Sky Plus Heteronyms Thrilling Comics No. 5
  • Caravela with Two Lines by Fernando Pessoa

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