so i’m wondering how there’s violence
boiled into everything // and how do you not see it Too
boiled into everything // and how do you not see it Too
Lucy Tiven, from “information warfare,” published in Hobart (via lifeinpoetry)
“Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted.”
two plants commit suicide back to back days in my house. what can i say. i’m hell to live with. i guess, is the message here. (even w the ‘i love you’ heart i stuck in this one’s soil. what more did it want from me?!)
As fragile and inauthentic as our identities are, Bowie let us (and still lets us) believe that we can reinvent ourselves. In fact, we can reinvent ourselves because our identities are so fragile and inauthentic. Just as Bowie seemingly reinvented himself without limits, he allowed us to believe that our own capacity for changes was limitless. Of course, there are limits - profound limits, mortal limits - in reshaping who we are. But somehow, in listening to his songs - even now - one hears an extraordinary hope that we are not alone and this place can be escaped, just for a day.
Simon Critchley, in his book Bowie (2014)
chill profile in column that translates to #massgrave
note: did not go to san diego state, went to sf state but dropped out to move to tinsel town ;)
excited to announce that my chapbook Dysplasia is available for preorder.
i have been working on this manuscript in various iterations for what feels forever & i’m so excited to finally share it! poem topics include: sam waterston, feelings, a tomato, my cervix
you can read the title poem on The Quietus
i would really appreciate if you ordered a copy, as advance sales will help determine the size of the pressrun. books will ship march 25. if you would prefer to place an order by check or money order, or would like a PDF or ARC for review, feel free to shoot me an email at lucy.tiven@gmail.com.
some things ppl have said of book:
“I don’t think anyone has any business writing poetry unless they have the ability to see the world in an entirely new way. Lucy Tiven has this, and then some. (Plus she’s really funny.)” - Juliet Escoria
“Lucy Tiven’s enticingly schizophrenic Dysplasia fjords the uncanny valley between eBay and the author’s cervix like a friend you wish would never age. “I’m sorry / I spilled soup on your keyboard,” she admits, but goddamn if it’s not by 100% direly refreshing.” - Blake Butler
“I like Lucy Tiven’s poetry collection because there’s a quote from Eileen Myles at the beginning and i’ve had a crush on Eileen Myles ever since i saw the Cool for You cover even though i’m not sure the woman on the cover is Eileen. Also, I like Lucy Tiven’s poetry collection (i can’t remember the title or the title was a word i didn’t know or too long of a word or something) because Lucy seems smart and funny like me and the poems reference things i can relate to like where someone was when Michael Jackson died (having sex with ‘you’) and being in a sanitarium with Alice Cooper and because she titled a poem 'Cul-de-sac.’ i just love the word 'Cul-de-sac’ because it’s so suburban.” - Elizabeth Ellen
I wrote a 24-page sonnet / an essay called “The Book of Repulsive Women.”
In it, a body doesn’t need a cunt to be a Stoned women / just a wound.
In it, a woman who can’t see the body she performs with goes on a tour with her first book. She eats / she doesn’t.
In it, she is feeling + illness. She is the sea.
In it, she can’t be straight.
In it, a body refuses forgiveness and fucking Bread Loaf and men who tell her how to read / perform my poems / who ban her from bringing poems longer than 30 lines to class.
In it, I’m worse than a corpse I’m alive.
In it, I’m worse than a corpse I’m dead.
In it, Mary Ruefle is wrong / we are surrounded by people dying. It is not rare.
In it, Emily Bronte says Fuck You, I’m real.
In it, ALL READING IS BLOOD.
I wrote a sonnet. I’ll never write a sonnet.
“the impossible movement between regarding atrocity and mortal joy”
sometimes you read a poem and for 1 second you can feel everything in your life & beyond your life over again
you know I shake like static