Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN is the second collaboration between Kelly Schirmann and Tyler Brewington after their chapbook, Nature Machine (Poor Claudia, 2014).
"Reading Tyler Brewington and Kelly Schirmann's split-book BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN is like the best sleepover ever, that late-night freakout time when the real gets giddy and Truth-or-Dare demands only truth, more truth and forever truth. The two individually written halves of the book use the same title, BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN, and as Brewington collects moments of attention and knotting and scattering into a disjunctive and projective wisdom, Schirmann deals and redeals the cards of her experiences, not to compete but to show how each hand can be tragic and beautiful. Both poets work in a confessionalism that owes as much to Adrienne Rich and O'Hara as it does to Catullus and entwined within one spine these two demonstrate the permeability of our experiences and relationships, how we climb and fall off these cliffs of love and fear and bodies and joy."—Mathias Svalina
Synopsis
Boyfriend Mountain is the second collaboration between Kelly Schirmann and Tyler Brewington after their chapbook, Nature Machine (Poor Claudia, 2014).
About the Author
Kelly Schirmann is the author of
Activity Book (NAP, 2014) and the co- author of
Nature Machine (Poor Claudia, 2013). She sings in the band Young Family and runs BLACK CAKE, a web-based audio-chapbook label for contemporary poetry recordings. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Tyler Brewington is an MFA candidate in poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His chapbook Dear Stray Volcano was published by Alice Blue in fall 2013. He is from Boise, Idaho.