Simina Banu

POP

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POP rummages through the stale Cheetos after the love poem: what remains? What never existed to begin with? The book invites the reader to journey both forward and backward in time, to retrace steps, solve word searches, hold pages to the light. POP delineates the intensities of a volatile relationship through a variety of lenses. As the speaker tries to anchor her experience, she is met with a clamour of perspectives: it is a junk food fight of poetic styles, each line fried and seasoned using recipes passed down for generations; it is a sad clown’s skincare routine; it is a singalong, a cartoonish cacophony of pots and puns. The speaker shakes the love poem for all it’s worth, leaving behind a trail of lint, wrappers, fibs, and soap foam, but opening up enough space to move in herself.
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45 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
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Quotes

  • Crystal Vega-Huertahas quoted3 years ago
    We think your poem is ill.

    We caught it in the backyard puking behind the chrysanthe-
    mums.

    It ran off at the sight of us.

    We think it’s been stealing our vinegar.

    Our two fire extinguishers are missing.

    Last week, we saw it at the superstore with a cart full of
    radishes.

    We think it’s on a juice cleanse.

    We threw the book1 at it.

    It swore until it ran out of breath and fainted.

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