Chat Rooms, paperback
Publication Date: July 25, 2023
Publisher Marketing: What poetry deserves this time? What time deserves this poetry? This is a poetry that takes in, talks back, bites down at the questionable, the unintelligible, the intolerable. Hard hitting speech, rhythmically measured and aurally gifted, its words on occasion break apart, elide a letter or two. Eric Acosta elects consonance over assonance to say what. Say what? This is a poetry fully alive to coming alive. It registers confusion, ferocity and tenderness. "Of me, of you haunts the page." "Genderless sex gone / fluid / . . . wanting from so unattainable a distance." Addiction flirts and flaunts; alcohol is exorcised: "the whiskey jar had to be put out to pasture / I baptized the glass nine times / and it still sinned." Go with Acosta
