Liner Notes for Getting Out Without Catching Fire (Standard Edition)

By Michèle Saint-Michel

"Liner Notes for Getting Out Without Catching Fire" beckons to action, urging readers to embrace survivors' stories. Michèle Saint-Michel crafts a vibrant mosaic from shattered fragments, painting diverse experiences and memories. With language that sparks like a flame, these free verse and ekphrastic poems glow, resonating with the brilliance o

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bad Saturn
• Release date: Sep 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9780999902035

Michèle Saint-Michel

Michèle Saint-Michel is an artist, filmmaker, and author. Designed to promote healing, her genre-bending works encourage healthy coping and recovery from difficult experiences. She's the author of two books, a coloring book, and three journals. After the heartfelt reception of Grief is an Origami Swan, Saint-Michel released the highly experimental poetry collection, Saint Agatha Mother Redeemer, and the accompanying Saint Agatha Mother Redeemer Coloring Book. She's also released a set of journals based on the poetry of Walt Whitman. When she isn't creating art books, she is filming, tending her land art piece [poetry forest], and pressing flowers.

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LINER NOTES FOR

GETTING OUT WITHOUT

CATCHING FIRE

Michèle Saint-Michel

Copyright © 2023 Michèle Saint-Michel

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Saint-Michel, Michèle.

Liner Notes for Getting Out Without Catching Fire

by Michèle Saint-Michel.

ISBN: 978-0-9999020-3-5

A clarion call to action, Liner Notes for Getting Out Without Catching Fire urges readers to actively engage with the stories of survivors. Michele Saint-Michel picks up the shattered pieces to create a mosaic of experiences and memories in brilliant technicolor. Amidst the collection's electric urgency and quantum slipping, these poems illuminate the indomitable spirit of survivors and the transformative power of feminine relationships, art, and music. A poetry collection that is as brave and devastating as it is essential.

Also available in Standard and Deluxe (illustrated) edition.

Acknowledgements

Part 1 2 3

Now or Never by Billie Holiday and the Count Basie Orchestra (1949)            

Metamodernist Still Life

Spotless with Transubstantiation

May Day

Thorn and Steeple and Hives

An Occurrence of Multi Temporality

I wasn't 0 1 2 real. Kingdom come

Higgs Field and the Immediate Gravitational Collapse of the Universe            

In the Room of the Draught Miraculous

[Rothko Paints to Mozart in a Room Filled with Atoms] II            

Floodplain

Part 1 2 3

Ball N’ Chain by Big Mama Thornton (1968)

Déjeuner sur l’Herbe

Blocking Beliefs Questionnaire

Three Sheets to the Wind

Manual for Field Dressing

Vigil for the Placebo

The Death of Cleopatra

Listen, the Snow is Falling

Judith and Her Maidservant

Back Alley Surgery by Malvina Reynolds (1978)

[Rothko Paints to Mozart in a Room Filled with Atoms] III

Part 1 2 3

Pullulate

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best by Karen Dalton (1969)            

Night Terrors (Reprise) by Diet Cig (2020)

Brief Trauma History Intake

Wake for a Severed Hand

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