hours inside out
In this debut collection, Isabella Preisz explores what it means to exist in simultaneity. Across these visceral poems, Preisz recreates moments of adolescence, sexual exploration, shame, and disassociation to examine what it means to occupy the body. She fragments language to display growing as a conglomerate experience of past, present, and future remembrance. Catching language on the boundary of formation, she exposes the process of healing as fluid as egg yolk — gooey, runny, and easily ruptured.
“The exact kind of drug the world needs right now.”
— Matthew Dickman, poet
In this debut collection, Isabella Preisz explores what it means to exist in simultaneity. Across these visceral poems, Preisz recreates moments of adolescence, sexual exploration, shame, and disassociation to examine what it means to occupy the body. She fragments language to display growing as a conglomerate experience of past, present, and future remembrance. Catching language on the boundary of formation, she exposes the process of healing as fluid as egg yolk — gooey, runny, and easily ruptured.
“The exact kind of drug the world needs right now.”
— Matthew Dickman, poet
In this debut collection, Isabella Preisz explores what it means to exist in simultaneity. Across these visceral poems, Preisz recreates moments of adolescence, sexual exploration, shame, and disassociation to examine what it means to occupy the body. She fragments language to display growing as a conglomerate experience of past, present, and future remembrance. Catching language on the boundary of formation, she exposes the process of healing as fluid as egg yolk — gooey, runny, and easily ruptured.
“The exact kind of drug the world needs right now.”
— Matthew Dickman, poet
Cover design by Cassidy Trier. Interior layout by Julianna Sy. Edited by Safia Elhillo and Rhiannon McGavin.
68 pages, paperback 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
ISBN: 978-1-945649-38-7
Publishing date: May 18, 2020
Poetry
