Cody-Rose Clevidence – författare

A triptych of wild, lyric love poems that are, at heart, an ode to Arkansas.Set among blue Ozark creeks, hoods of trucks, and changing constellations, Cody-Rose Clevidence’s poems call up embodied sensations as they arise, with love and anguish, in a specific place. Navigating between senses and the sensed world, in lyric, lushness and density, Clevidence constructs an intricate and playful poetics both experimental and emotive to investigate the interplay between the vivid sensations of the body and the viscerally surrounding world.

Animate, emotive, sensory-rich and a little vicious, the poems in this collection take as their subject the earth as a planet, small and contaminated and alone in vast space, and the humans and creatures and technology swarming it with life. Formally inventive and playful with language, referencing Tennyson in one breath and the metaverse the next, these poems wander through spacetime with their irreverent theologies, exploring what it could mean to be living, sensate and awake in this weird moment of historical time, a mixture half of awe and half of madness.