6/2/2023 0 Comments Rocket fantastic poems![]() ![]() What brings this collection together, as with all good poetry, is the vast beauty of the language itself: the way one word falls so effortlessly into another and how those words can burrow deep inside the heart. ![]() Fitting that this anchoring term is used to represent such a character, whose own experience and confession lead us into a greater understanding of what a genderless utopia might be like. Rather than using a gendered pronoun, the Bandleader is marked by the musical symbol for the Italian term “dal segno,” which is generally used as a navigation marker in sheet music. Central to this exploration is the Bandleader, whose gender is undefined and fluid. The many characters in Rocket Fantastic are, perhaps, a vision of an alternate reality where human expression and experience no longer rely on the strict confinement of gender categories. Calvocoressi takes us into a seemingly intergalactic realm through a smattering of characters, almost as if a twenty-first-century reimagining of a Dantean journey. So much of what we see in the world in this moment illustrates division, whereas these poems seek to coalesce. ![]() ![]() It is wide open, vulnerable, and seductive-the most compelling thing I have read this year, without contest, and so very timely. Gabrielle Calvocoressi takes us to a world that is at once arresting and comforting, both familiar and strange in her latest book, Rocket Fantastic. ![]()
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