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Emily Holland's urgent debut collection, Notifications On, interrogates fluctuations of lesbian desire across physical and digital landscapes. Against the backdrop of climate collapse, these places and platforms become sites of wanting, embodying locations where the speaker attempts to make their yearning-and their queerness-legible. Social media bots, rural convenience stores, internet memes, sites of remembrance, and online chat rooms all become spaces that refract the speaker's sense of self and interrupt the flow of their desire. Winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers' Publishing House. "The poems in this collection ask not only what & who do we want, but how can we possibly disentangle our desires from those of others? & how can we then communicate those wants, outside of language, beyond the body, & in moments of intrusion?" - Mac Crane, author of A Sharp Endless Need "Image-rich with fruits that "hide in the curls of crisp leaves" and "moths [that] metronome against the fluorescent lights," these poems are peppered with crisp interiority as they navigate the nature of desire-the "sticky pulp" of them resonating like the sugar sap of new and old loves." - Chet'la Sebree, author of Blue Opening "I've been waiting for this book for years. With deft and tender turns, Notifications On is brilliantly befitting its Dickinson lineage. [...] Holland is a treasure among us." - Séamus Isaac Fey, author of Decompose
Published: Jan 26, 2027
|Est. Pages: 98
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