Duhem, Stephanie Yue: Cataclysm Moves Me I Regret to Say

House of Vlad Press, paperback

Publication Date: June 24, 2025

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In dreamy, vivid verse that sways between talky confessionalism and formal elegance, Stephanie Yue Duhem confronts the large and small cataclysms that make up a life—from the tumult of immigration to the awkwardness of social foibles, the pandemic to the technological singularity, the anguish of lost love to the demands of art.

“[Duhem’s] collection is a place where ancient personae make contact with the idioms and vocabularies of the twenty-first century…”—RYAN RUBY, author of Context Collapse

“…slides between the nostalgic confines of our earthly bodies and the truth of our discomforting futures.”—ELLE NASH, author of Deliver Me

“[These poems] fly off like Noah’s raven and his dove, tinged with the vital twin possibilities of failure and hope.”—TOM SNARSKY, author of Reclaimed Water

“Readers will find themselves rereading stanzas under surreal skies replete with birdsong—baffled by the prowess of Duhem’s perception…”—SHY WATSON, author of Horror Vacui

“A spectacular, tender, and sensitive book of poems—but also alarmingly funny, even in its mood of socio-technological gloom.”—TAWANDA MULALU, author of Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die

“…this collection feels like strolling in and out of a manor house, or gold leaf catching wind…”—GABI ABRÃO, author of Notes on Shapeshifting