This is NMLCT BKTRLR #2, the second book trailer for NMLCT, my eighth book of poetry, out this September from ECW Press, but some advance praises are already in hand. I want to thank Stuart Ross, Annick MacAskill, and Tolu Oloruntoba for singing this book's praises. We write much of our work in solitude, but we publish it in community, and I am grateful for these poets whose work I love so much.
I made this little video as the second book trailer, featuring some excerpts from their comments.Music is "The Facility" by wererabbit.
Preorders for the book are now available at https://ecwpress.com/products/nmlct
"NMLCT’s assured, diamond-knife vision is better described as augural than speculative. Every word is well chosen, every pixel assertive on this atlas to worlds that are at once obscure and familiar. It is an elegant ultimatum. Its poetry is stretched taut between meta-allegory and instruction manual for seeking, finding, and reforming the self. It calls us to denounce the ambivalent, beveled, and algorithmic recursion of machine thought. It invites us to travel through rebellion and transition to transfiguration, to emerge rewilded and rearranged—a gift the best books leave us with. You’ll want to go back immediately."
— Tolu Oloruntoba
"Paul Vermeersch’s beguiling NMLCT articulates both common despair and the resilience of hope. Anchored by form and a keen sense of rhythm, these ambitious poems depict fantastical worlds that mirror the disorientation of our increasingly unbelievable landscape."
— Annick MacAskill
"NMLCT is the corner we’ve backed ourselves into—and perhaps a map out of it. This is an essential book, an avalanche of compressed fairy tales for our time. Paul Vermeersch has become more daring and emphatic with every poetry collection, and this book is a blistering mourner’s lament: audacious, brutal, compassionate, and darkly ecstatic. “What on earth,” he asks, “has happened here, and when? Who is the astronaut and who is the ape?”
— Stuart Ross
