Fjords vol.2
“The thing about killing is, like everything else, it feels as bright as love for just a flash.” The second volume in Zachary Schomburg’s Fjords series of evocative prose poetry, this is a collection that engages with dreams and a complicated and ever-evolving relationship with death. These poems bring together vivid and unexpected imagery—“a tiny light-pink fruit fly, the hot breath of a bear”—while pulling you deep into the mind of Schomburg, where thoughts like “finding a pair of scissors on the moon, or when I die, noticing my death notice me” are just part of the life that inhabits the inlets of the imagination.
Zachary Schomburg is the author of six books of poems, all published by Black Ocean. He is also the author of a novel, Mammother, and he is an illustrator, painter, and publisher of the independent poetry press Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with B and Y.
