The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Maria Turza offers an unforgettable, uncanny experience.
Prepared to be startled by metaphysical snails and scribbled footnotes in the dark. Critically acclaimed poet Anne Maria Turza's Fugue with Bedbug is part portraiture and part musical reference. Someone's talking with devotion into their multiple elbows. Who could this be? There's no author photo, and just one mention of the internet. In Turza's unique and quietly revolutionary poems alternative selves rise and fall like a seriously lower-case-e empire in which the big questions (which all come without answers) are things like: what does a plant know, and what do you do with the ask of time? "Wait, says a small voice, wait, but that's all the time there is."
