OR
by Parker Tettleton

Description

Delightful new short fictions by the inimitable Parker Tettleton. OR is a travelogue of language via relationships—a state of endless conjunctions & several abbreviations. It’s also a meditation on the idea of home & a crooked bookend of sorts to This Is A City.

Comments:

“The prose poems in Parker Tettleton’s OR are “in the moment” snapshots of the heroic condition of living one’s life with its non-sequiturs of intimacy and distance. These are relational poems that understand language’s limitations as well as its ability to surprise and weave together the incongruous fabric of our relationships with others. Self-conscious in their awareness of the absurdities of the miraculous nature of the quotidian, the poems establish themselves as interlocutors between what happens and how we try to make sense of what happens, the ultimate aim of poetry.” (Christopher Kennedy, author of Clues from the Animal Kingdom)

“This book is Parker Tettleton’s invitation to go running with him. If you just run with him, trust him, he’ll take you places you never expected to go. But if you try to figure out where he’s going, he’ll veer off in a different direction, and probably leave you behind. You’ll be missing out.” (Ken Sparling, author of Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall)

“I think what’s going on in Parker Tettleton’s OR, this book that floats somewhere between Russell Edson and, who, Andy Warhol?, is that there is only language, and there is nothing particularly real or interesting going on outside of the poem.” (Louis Bourgeois, VOX PRESS)