It’s the end of
April 2008 and John Wheeler is still alive, the
gun that killed
George Tiller
lies in pieces
Wichita fetus
remotely controlling the Sphinx’s eyes
It’s the end of
April 2008 and John Wheeler is still alive, the
gun that killed
George Tiller
lies in pieces
Wichita fetus
remotely controlling the Sphinx’s eyes
Filip Marinovich writes about Julien Poirier, “He is a public investigator who reports openly to anybody who’ll pause and listen.” When Poirier writes, “Jehovah’s Witnesses / grouping on the sunny cracked driveway, / cyclops in forests of rosemary and juniper,” we find ourselves challenged by a weird ideal of journalistic objectivity. Facing the continuity of a Jehovah’s witness, sunlight on a driveway, and a cyclops in a forest of spices, who’s to say one is a thing more familiar than another?
Julien Poirier was a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he co-edited the first seven issues of 6×6 and edited New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. He lives in California with his wife and daughters.
Other UDP titles from Julien Poirier here
Julien Poirier’s audio book Higher in Canada
Listen to Julien being interviewed and reading from his novel
32 pp, 7.5 x 11 in
Publication Date: November 15 2012