No More Flowers
Stephanie Cawley
In Stephanie Cawley’s No More Flowers, poetry serves as a resistance against suffering—their own, their loved ones’, humanity’s. A protest against meaninglessness. An antidote. The poems in No More Flowers believe in their ability to affect consequences with language, while being self-aware enough to know how absurd that belief is:
“That was just words. You could make them do anything, but also it was hard to make them do anything. Kite against blue clouds. Tree with green leaves. Street sign cut off on one edge so it says Cum Street. This was the machine into which I poured my sadness. The words were dead and they were alive.”
These poems are a pleasure. And they insist that pleasure—and desire—are not an indulgence. They are a necessity to life: “I do want my friend to find / a place to sleep for longer than a few weeks. / I do want to put flowers in the mouths / of everyone I love and call it art.” The title declares No More Flowers, but inside the book, flowers proliferate. A queer, wild garden riots into bloom.
Catalog
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No More Flowers
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Wrong Heaven Again
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Limited Edition Broadside "Heaven"
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Limited Edition Broadside "Considerate"
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Limited Edition Broadside "In the belly of blackness or Monk on Friendship..."
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3 Limited Edition Broadsides Series
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Tropical Sacrifice
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Good Actors
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Pricks in the Tapestry
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Savage Pageant
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A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom
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while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
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R E D
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Joy of Missing Out
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Human Achievements
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IRL
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Tender Data
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From the Author's Private Collection
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Dead Horse
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Backup Singers
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The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather
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Rise in the Fall
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Partyknife
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Goat in the Snow
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Either Way I'm Celebrating
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The Kings Of The F**King Sea
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The Trees Around
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The French Exit
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