25/01/2020
Dylan Krieger's new book is out on January 30th from Nine Mile Books & Magazine.
Order one at http://www.ninemile.org/
Here's a review by our editor-in-chief...
Dylan Krieger’s bio states that she is writing the apocalypse in real-time, and after last year’s The Mother Wart (Vegetarian Alcoholic) was released as a slew of anti-abortion laws were being introduced and women’s rights, in general, were being targeted in legislature, the fact that her newest book comes while an entire country is in flames, the threat of nuclear war sits heavy in the air, and the unveiling of the Doomsday Clock leaves us just 100 seconds from midnight, makes me a little scared to see what she pens next. Nonetheless, Metamortuary (Nine Mile) is as poignant and profound as Krieger has ever been, and things are certainly changing. Whether it’s under the scalpel, medically, or to alter oneself into a version more accepted by society; whether it’s the divide between the powerful and powerless only growing wider; whether it’s the environment around us growing more and more unstable, and we can only turn a blind eye to the floods, and fires, and earthquakes elsewhere for so long before our number is called, Krieger meditates on these shifts and transitions as an observer who is also a part of it all, and though her elegantly sonic verse may remind you that time is a factor, at no point does her work come off as preachy. It’s the final section of this book, however, that I found most surprising. It provides a break in the chaos that surrounds us to focus inward, and in this tenderness, you find the capacity for love, for pleasure, for making the most of the cards you're dealt. And it leaves you wondering if perhaps there’s still some hope after all.