Close Your Eyes When You Look At Me by Lauren Pope Nancy Gaffield Solà’s Beast has a duckling

Solà’s Beast has a duckling in the belly

2018 NAACP Image Award

Astronauts and aliens

its beauty

both rich and laconic

Close Your Eyes When You Look At Me by Lauren Pope Nancy Gaffield Solà’s Beast has a ducklingLauren Popes Close your Eyes when you Look at me is a blinding pamphlet which opens: [i]n the unforgiving light of the bread aisle. The majority of the poems were written in the short space of a week, lending compression and immediacy to Popes delightful imagery and emotional intimacy. Close your Eyes is a remarkable pamphlet whose author has verve and vivacity to describe sound by what it is not silence. ABOUT the author: Lauren Pope is a 2019