The Lune: Autumn 2017

at the bottom of the well where the moon lives,

can you pull me

— Denise Levertov, Here and Now (1957)

Marking the end of The Lune's thirty-title chapbook series, Autumn 2017 is a commencement ceremony led by six radically different contemporary voices: Sherry Luo, Nicholas Fuenzalida, Jaime Robles, Eleni Padden, Genelle Chaconas, and Curtis Romero. The resulting sextet of lyric and prose poetry forms a lunar ecology wherein the word surges, sits, chants and chats, alive in the magnetism of this mad maker's millennium.

Luo's Imperative of the Night scintillates, nuclear and osmotic; Fuenzalida's The Slightest Bearing billows with the quiet jazz of memory; Robles's Memory Palace furnishes the mind as a home; Padden's All the Parts of the Animal dons oil-slick war paint for the party at the end of the world; Chaconas's Yet Wave will decorate and destroy you; and Romero's Harvest spins the vinyl of our ecstasy and error. As the night-force of winter waxes, we present to you a constellation of stars in contemporary letters.