The seriousness of a debilitating illness—not only living with, but moving on despite the odds are the darker fare of these new poems by Dennis Rhodes. Poems of liberation, of one who has come out the other side alive. One could imagine Sexton, if she had survived her own life, writing poems like “The last OCD poem”:
A knife in the sink
makes me stop and think:
What if I tried it again?
I wouldn’t survive
or come out alive—
I think I’ll just wield my pen.
—Jeff Walt, author of Leave Smoke (Gival Press, 2020)
Note that 25% of author proceeds from the first year of sales will be donated to the International OCD Foundation.
Dennis Rhodes is the author of The Letter I (Chelsea Station Editions, 2014), Entering Dennis (Xlibris, 2005) and Spiritus Pizza & Other Poems (Vital Links, 2000). His poems and essays have appeared in BLOOM, Chelsea Station, Lambda Literary Review, The Cape Cod Times, New York Newsday, and other journals. Rhodes served as literary editor of Body Positive magazine and later as poetry editor of Provincetown Magazine. He co-founded the Provincetown Poetry Festival in 1999. For a number of years, Rhodes hosted a weekly radio show on WOMR in Provincetown, featuring interviews with local poets. He currently lives in Florida.
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Price: 18.00
Paperback: 82 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1945023279
Item Weight: 4.3 ounces
Dimensions: 6 x 0.17 x 9 inches