Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. The poems in YOU'RE GOING TO MISS ME WHEN YOU'RE BORED integrate the sublime and the mundane, the destined and the happenstance, the dire meaningfulness of the moment and the absurd lack of consequence in the infinity. In some, the trivial becomes transcendent and in others, the transcendent turns out to be a mirage. Justin Marks treats both moments with equity, qualifying epiphanies and salvaging disappointments.
About the Author
Justin Marks is the author of two full-length poetry collections, YOU'RE GOING TO MISS ME WHEN YOU'RE BORED (Barrelhouse Books, 2014), and A MILLION IN PRIZES (New Issues, 2009), and his latest chapbooks are We Used to Have Parties (Dikembe Press, 2014), and Best Practices (Greying Ghost, 2013). Recent work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Matter, similar:peaks, Leveler and Interrupture. He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their twin son and daughter.