Böcker av Carolyn Supinka

Metamorphic Door is a shapeshifting landscape. To read this collection is to tour the meat cave, the hadal zone, the summer air strung with mayflies. These are poems of noticing, full of insects, birds, and rocks; but also of viral videos, message-bearing geese, and the rat galactic. Supinka writes with a lantern curiosity, casting light everywhere her poetic gaze goes and these beams are further illuminated by illustrations which accompany the poems, as well as the combination of the two: poetry comics, which are featured throughout the book. Step through the eponymous door, roam its organic trappings, and feel your ecological and temporal attention transformed.

The poems in Stray Gods are notes from a journey about other journeys. They explore identity and place through the lens of a poet based in Pondicherry, India, as the result of a yearlong series of conversations with locals, travelers, and artists. Throughout history, the idea that a journey to an 'exotic' land has prevailed in folktales, religious literature, and pop culture. Stray Gods documents a year of exploring this cultural exchange as people from around the world undergo journeys, whether physical or internal, in search of answers.