Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There Volume 23 (First Poets Series)

Each section of Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is a psychogeographic investigation. Two casual ghost hunters on a road trip hear the death rattle of their relationship. Residents of a city’s fringe measure their physical and social isolation. A mother and her adult child have diametrically opposed reactions to their vacation spot. Lovers on a romantic coastal getaway discover how estranged they are from one another. Curious figures begin to embody their environments. Forthright and anecdotal, these poems recount the signals people transmit and receive, and the reciprocal ways we make, and are made by, the places we inhabit.

Jade Wallace is a poet, novelist, and literary critic whose books include: two poetry collections, most recently The Work Is Done When We Are Dead (Guernica Editions, 2026); a genderless novel, ANOMIA (Palimpsest Press, 2024); and, three collaborative poetry collections under the name MA|DE, most recently ZZOO (Palimpsest Press, 2025).