I Love It Though

ALLI WARREN’s most recent publications include Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On and Here Come the Warm Jets, winner of the Poetry Center Book Award. She published Dreamboat magazine, cocurated the (New) Reading Series, and coedited the Poetic Labor Project. She has lived in the Bay Area since 2005.

“These poems invite the reader into an uncanny immersion within the quotidian—akin to tasting the sharpness of sky color or watching song penetrate office walls.”—Jamie Townsend, The Boston Review's Summer Reading List“Warren directs her aptitude for rhyme and aural texture to conveying the shape and expression of human desire ('we have nothing/ between gasps/ of great need'), as well as the political structures that have evolved through these hungers: given the tendency of borders to 'burst open under their/ propensity for feasting,' Warren encourages readers to 'embrace your finitude/ as the end of accumulation.'”—Publishers Weekly"Among the wildness of sources, the syncopation found in I Love it Though is uniquely Warren’s own and which is in vivid relation to the English language lyric and metaphysical poetic."—Kimberly Lyons, Blazing Stadium