Goodly makes a new way of moving body and mind together, and Black Swim is the water that contains and constitutes this movement so primal, original, and just now becoming.
— Brenda Shaughnessy
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Black Swim by Nicholas Goodly
Winner of the 2017 PSA Chapbook Fellowship
Black Swim by Nicholas Goodly, selected and introduced by Brenda Shaughnessy.
Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson, with covers by Kitty McCall.
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Torch in Drag
come penitent gaping crow
come pyramids and broken city
you are now a giant woman.
we are longing.
lick your claws
tangerine. eat a liver every day
become extraordinarily beautiful
that is your ability. winged queen
fogging old phoenix take up
as much room as you need. narrate
toward a thing darker than a person.
set every precious one of them on fire
All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
