Alex Dimitrov - Böcker

'It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush... There have been moments when, for me, its effervescence has failed to rhyme with the despondency of these days. But far more often, Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy' New York TimesLove and Other Poems is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure - specifically, the twelve months of the year - Alex Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is 'our best invention'. Dimitrov never resists joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

'The Astro Poets light up the internet' - The New York TimesHave you ever wondered why your Gemini friend won't let you get a word in edgeways? Or when that Scorpio who's texting 'u up?' at 2a.m. will finally take the next step in your relationship? If so, you've come to the right place. An invaluable tool to help you see what's written in the stars and to use to navigate your friendships, your career and your very complicated love life, Astro Poets is a book you really can't do without.Both the perfect introduction to the twelve signs for the astrological novice and an indispensable resource for those already expert on all their friends' birth charts, this is the astrology must-have to guide you through a complex world.'From matchmaking and compatibility, to friendship, professional, and dating advice, the poets of the stars are here to guide you through any challenge' - W Magazine

'Ecstasy stands out for its brutal examination of the transience of Eros ... Campy and fun' GuardianIn Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finely wrought poetry that can come out of it.He explores sex, drugs, parties, pleasure, and God in the 2020s, and looks back to a coming-of-age in the 1990s that still informs who his generation is and will be. His unabashed and drivingly musical poems are a call against repression, a rebuke of cultural norms and shame, and a celebration of human authenticity – even if to live under such philosophies is dangerous.In ‘Today I Love Being Alive’, we find the poet naked in his kitchen, eating a banana and obsessed with a new lover, declaring ‘I don't care about being remembered. / I care about . . . Strong men. Beautiful sentences. Italian leather’; in ‘Poppers’, he stands lightheaded in the bathroom at a bar, ‘thinking of what to do / with the rest of my life’, and issuing a warning to himself and us: ‘Poetry / is not a self-help book.’Dimitrov is an iconographer of contemporary life, able to pin profound and timeless meaning to a fleeting encounter in the street. Ecstasy also engages with the poet’s Christian upbringing, interrogating faith as both an enemy and valve of catharsis, and a bedfellow of what this book celebrates and courts: profound human ecstasy.'A rollicking paean to pleasure, an ode to realness and resilience ... Raw and honest and deeply personal' New York Times'Dimitrov is that rarest of creatures, a true poet and a truly contemporary poet. Thank god he's here' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours*A most anticipated queer book for Spring 2025 in Electric Literature*