UpSet Press

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• ISBN 9781937357900
• 72 Pages •5 x 8
• $12.00
I suggest Slippers for Elsewhere be read as a manifesto for queer optimism.
11/04/2014
Matthew Burgess’s Slippers for Elsewhere is a buoyant and colorful debut. Much like the rainbow beach balls bouncing off of the book’s front cover (courtesy of an untitled Joe Brainard collage) Burgess’s poems cheerfully recall the unrepeatable summers of suburban childhood and Joan Collins crushes amidst “the shirtless huddle / of sexy extras.” Sustained by…
• Book: Slippers for Elsewhere
• Author: Matthew Burgess
• Publisher: UpSet Press
• Genre: Poetry

Recommended by:Lara Mimosa Montes
Lara Mimosa Montes is a poet, performer, and PhD candidate based in New York. Her poems have been published in ONandOnScreen, The Fanzine, Bone Bouquet, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Two Serious Ladies. Newer poems are forthcoming in FENCE, Triple Canopy, DIAGRAM, and JERRY. She was born in the Bronx.