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Birds, LLC, 2024.
"Stephanie Cawley’s No More Flowers is a book that builds soil / earth as viscous porosity. It’s refusal and it’s more generous. It’s a study of entanglement. A collision / a coalescing of memories, thoughts, experiences, edges rustling and shining amongst wildflowers / so close to the highway you can brush against them, pull on a seed. 'Life on earth is about applying pressure / without understanding what it might do,' says Cawley. 'At this juncture, I unhinge myself from time, gender, cheekbones / How embarrassing, to admit I don’t care about plot, just images of water and a somber face, or, / barring that, a savage, intelligent, feminine interiority,' says Cawley. You bring intentionality to the poem, your life, your politics / and yet / it can still get away from you / get wild." — Carrie Lorig
Birds, LLC, 2024.
"Stephanie Cawley’s No More Flowers is a book that builds soil / earth as viscous porosity. It’s refusal and it’s more generous. It’s a study of entanglement. A collision / a coalescing of memories, thoughts, experiences, edges rustling and shining amongst wildflowers / so close to the highway you can brush against them, pull on a seed. 'Life on earth is about applying pressure / without understanding what it might do,' says Cawley. 'At this juncture, I unhinge myself from time, gender, cheekbones / How embarrassing, to admit I don’t care about plot, just images of water and a somber face, or, / barring that, a savage, intelligent, feminine interiority,' says Cawley. You bring intentionality to the poem, your life, your politics / and yet / it can still get away from you / get wild." — Carrie Lorig
