LIBIDO
NIGHTMARE
by
Asha-Mae Chapman Ralph
on nmp.23:
2024, paperback
84 pages, 148 x 210 mm
first edition, edition of 100
hand-stampted covers
no more poetry are joyous in the announcement of Asha-Mae Chapman Ralph’s poetry collection LIBIDO NIGHTMARE. the poetry is quick, rhythmic and acute. the sounds are scrawled, the poems sound handwritten, poems of the body doing life somewhere in the city, in the car, in the early morning of long company. the work is bold and agile, wields stylish conviction in its slicing through time and realities; possibilities warp in here playfully. the divine performs in mouldy corners, dreams emerge as buses pass, gateways to the psychedelic exercises of thought get pulled together in that great shelf of words. the poem invites more poems. writing has function here, proves its function as the suburban prayer. these are real documents of confusion, sorrow, contentment, pain, trust, risk, love, daydreaming, and with each a proven opportunity for inquiry. LIBIDO NIGHTMARE sees that the poet is always working and the poem is never done, they are words that invite more, that invite contradictions even if necessary. vibrant, hopeful, filth poems. abundant music. fearless dives into abstractions, firing loops unto the wisdom of the buzzing puppy of immanence.
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