new from above/ground press: And Absurd Cycle, by Drew McEwan

And Absurd Cycle
Drew McEwan
$5

We behaviors rituals

overwhelming serious victims
behaviors
the lengths prevent pleasure
drugs people chemistry

less and OCD

Form in common devastating lives
washing the difficulty
impatient performance hour’s Obsessions
mental Latin

in distress is something pleasant

understood extremely body extremely everyday
physically use transmission
patient rituals make People
and repeat overwhelmed and absurd cycle

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Drew McEwan is the author of the poetry collections Repeater, If Pressed, and Tours, Variously (forthcoming, 2025). She has also published numerous literary chapbooks including Conditional, Can't tell if this book is depressing or if I'm just sad, Theory of Rooms, and Recoveringly. She works as an educator and researcher at the University at Buffalo.

This is her second title with above/ground press, after theory of rooms (2016).

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