Fjords vol. 2
Fjords vol. 2
$16.00
By Zachary Schomburg
Paperback / 80p. / Poetry
ISBN 978-1-939568-3-73
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“The thing about killing is, like everything else, it feels as bright as love for just a flash.” The second volume in Zachary Schomburg’s Fjords series of evocative prose poetry, this is a collection that engages with dreams and a complicated and ever-evolving relationship with death. These poems bring together vivid and unexpected imagery—“a tiny light-pink fruit fly, the hot breath of a bear”—while pulling you deep into the mind of Schomburg, where thoughts like “finding a pair of scissors on the moon, or when I die, noticing my death notice me” are just part of the life that inhabits the inlets of the imagination.
“Schomburg enacts the beauty, grief, and anxiety of being alive today in his tender sixth book, the second volume in his Fjords series . . . These ruminative poems are full of unusual ways of seeing and peppered with engaging insights.”
“The surreal is never grandiose or bombastic in Schomburg’s poems, it is right there, inside you, at all times, like a tiger, like a fog.”
“Seemingly silly but carrying a strange emotional weight, his uneasy poems nod to a larger loneliness or disconnection.”
“The fact that Schomburg’s poems have been adapted from text to visual and performance art is unsurprising—the work asks to be enacted, physically embraced, shaken, torn, swallowed, smothered, and reborn.”
“Schomburg has encapsulated modern life in just one hundred or so pages. The bizarre imagination that spirals through the poems wonders, creates, and feeds upon itself.”
“Schomburg builds a fearlessly balanced galaxy, a cosmos inhabited by angry mobs and bleeding trees but thick with sweetness and blossoming light.”
