To Be Hung from the Ceiling by Strings of Varying Length

Young poet Rick Reid enters the pantheon of Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.

“Rick Reid is one the most startling, exciting, and innovative poets now writing. He is doing nothing less than reimagining and redefining the boundaries of our poetry. The future of poetry starts here.” ―David St. John, author of Prism

This groundbreaking poetry collection is a work of interval, delay, and retracing―writing of shifts of silence. Each page serves as a kind of frame that superimposes itself temporally, aurally, and visually on the pages that come before and after to produce a process of both afterimage and surfacing. Inspired by the process of painting and over-painting a canvas―the perceptual and image-layering found in processes of superimposition―to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying length explores both the creation and decay of memory and perception through phases of sound and space, whereby seeing and writing generate and erase themselves simultaneously.