[Brooklyn, NY]

Filip Marinovich Book Party + Reading
April 16, 2019, 8:00 pm
at Quimby's Bookstore

Stars Align!

Help us celebrate the releases of Jessica Rae Bergamino’s “Unmanned,” (Noemi Press) and Filip Marinovich’s “The Suitcase Tree,” (The Operating System) with Bergamino, Marinovich, Elæ Elæ, Joanna C. Valente, and Peter Milne Greiner!

All your witchy queer space dreams come true.

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On “The Suitcase Tree,” CA Conrad writes:

“Filip Marinovich is one of my favorite living poets! He has lived his poems for many years now and we can trust he means it when he says, ‘the tree’s boyfriend is me / trim the pubes / and get ready for the muse.’ Dendrophiliacs have a new champion, a poet as werewolf as they come, as beautiful as you can imagine! You love great poems and need this book.”

On “Unmanned,” Kazim Ali writes:

“UNMANNED is a beautiful, poetic, whimsical romp, ransacking the genres of apocalyptic fiction, spaghetti western, space opera, and all the while it is a deeply and sincerely felt prayer for salvation. As the Voyager satellites lance far beyond our solar system in search of any intelligent life, the Earth it left behind careers wildly towards unsustainable climate change and its attendant devastating impacts. Barbarella, Princess Leia, post-Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Hearst, Miss Piggy, and Peter Allen in Liza Minnelli drag are but some of the science-goddesses through whose aspects Bergamino explores both human and stellar condition. Astronomy, astrology, divination, and divinity collide in these wild, ardent poems. Would that we’d had this book to include on the golden record; at very least we can add it to the archive of the literature of the late life of the chthulucene.”

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Accessibility: Quimby’s is a storefront on the first floor. It is fully accessible.