PRROBLEM, paperback
Publication Date: February 17, 2025
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PRROBLEM covers are printed on a Kelsey Excelsior Model O letterpress. Books are bound using Chicago screws.
Christine Kelly's Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid puts geometry to shame. Like a curve rolling on the inside of a circumference, "my dispersal is at your disposal," Kelly writes. Hypocycloids aren't just graphical representations—they're spatial unsystems, vibed out significations, sites of performance. Here, words do not stay in their lanes; they revel in signal and contour, replace questions with better questions. Variably flat and fortissimo, panoramic and specific, Kelly's poems dramatize "bonfire continuity error" and "assonant alien astro-liberations," asking us to "register again what has been registered slightly." Allow Me performs recombinatory and deductive sleights of hand wherein software instructions, punchlines, academic jargon, and quotidian speech can try on one another's costumes. In the vaudevillian tradition of an abracadabra-ist, this book comes fully Verfremdungs bedecked.
