new from above/ground press: Elegies for the Fish Prince of Arkansas, by Lea Graham

Elegies for the Fish Prince of Arkansas
Lea Graham
$6

 

January 16, 2024

    your face in the evening schools of longing
            --Audre Lorde

These are not
“mornings of 
wish and ripen.”

I wake to dishes
undone. How to say
torpor, gray, try
in one thousand ways?

You are still
upstairs in 
imagination

your mind rowing 
along the shore of to-do,
checking the trotlines 
of here, now


Three hundred sixty-five
days you are gone:
Awe-filled, common

How the world courses 
without reason, 
its terrible
current

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Lea Graham is a writer, editor and translator who lives in Hyde Park, New York with her wise little dog, Volta. She is the author of the recent chapbook The Swing at the Edge of the World (Finishing Line Press, 2025), Elegies to the Fish Prince of Arkansas (above/ground Press, 2026) and three poetry collections, The O.E.D. Odes (forthcoming from MadHat Press), From the Hotel Vernon (Salmon Press, 2019) and Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books, 2011). She is co-editor with Celia Bland of A Jar of Air: The Work of Maxine Chernoff (forthcoming, MadHat Press) and editor of From the Word to the Place: The Work of Michael Anania (MadHat Press, 2022). She is associate professor at Marist University in Poughkeepsie, NY.

This is Graham’s fourth above/ground press chapbook, after Spell to Spell (2018), Calendar Girls (2006) and metric : a collaboration (with rob mclennan, 2011).

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