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Limerence is now available to order!!
Limerence explores the psychological phenomenon of infatuation with an unattainable love. This finalist for the John Pierce Poetry Prize navigates the stages of limerence: infatuation, crystallization, and deterioration. The poems are ecstatic, sad, humorous and self-aware, exploring the highs and lows of limerent attachment to a kindred spirit.
Praise for Limerence
Dion O’Reilly’s poetry collection, Limerence, though it chronicles the slow starvation of the
stubbornly infatuated, is a feast. Its speaker is a bird who cannot stop herself from singing, in
poem after poem, her gorgeous, glittering, aching song. “When I was twenty,” she tells us, “I fell
for a devil / with tin-can eyes,” a man who “could harp the strings of my body.” Limerence is a
collection of love poems that chronicle, across a lifetime, the fallout of that early meeting,
engaging with that most difficult of losses to parse: the loss of a love we maybe never really had.
Poems, like memories, are “trinkets to help you / remember a beautiful place where you can’t
live.” Long after readers turn the final page of Limerence, they will recall its gleaming, haunting
landscapes. Francesca Bell
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Sadness of the Apex Predator
A Mastiff named Tiny, Seattle in the 70s, a house fire that interrupts a girl's life, a predatory mother who attends to her wounded daughter and the many predatory men who swoop in when the destabilized woman is loosed into the world, all of this is woven throughout Sadness of the Apex Predator, a collection of poems that studies both the way Sapiens feed on one another and also the redemption our hungers can bring. Order Sadness of the Apex Predator HERE!
Ghost Dogs
Ghost Dogs is the winner of the Independent Press award for poetry, the Dragonfly award for poetry, the Pinnacle Achievement Award for Poetry, an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Award, and took third place in the Royal Dragonfly Book Award.
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3rd Place 2020
2020 for Poetry
2020 for Poetry
Ghost Dogs, is available from Terrapin Books and anywhere you get your books!
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