Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer.

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Rocket Fantastic

Okay, I've never been a big poetry person. My standard for it has always been "I like this! It sounds nice!" or "I just don't get it." This semester, I'm taking a poetry writing class for a requirement for my English major and my view has completely shifted. I have a new appreciation for poetry, the potential fluidity of its structure and the unknown/vague feelings that may come with poetry. My professor specifically recommended me this book for an essay we'll be writing about a poetry collection of our choice and I am so glad they did because I absolutely am in love with this book. Calvocoressi is a brilliant story-teller and doesn't shy away from those uncomfortable images and feelings which is exactly what I love in fiction and what I have come to love in reading poetry. I especially love the fluidity of the Bandleader and the explorations of gender, the body, and our relationships with other people. So so good

G. Calvocoressi

Now in paperback, a spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family.

Rocket Fantastic Poems

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