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Tributaries is a pulse, a heartbeat of imprinted memories found within the land we all find ourselves in. Listen closely to the language of tree bark, owl howls, bison, coyotes, butterfly dreams. An eco-poetic journey that digs into the humanity and spirituality of nature and the one who travels its paths. As Everett writes, "My body is a land of limestone/karstic, hollow, just as malleable, /a living structure where the dead/carve their initials."
-Aimee Herman, author of Meant to Wake Up Feeling and To Go Without Blinking
This collectionis brimming with sonically-charged poems that engage water and beyond-human beings on an elemental level, while also being attuned to the way that man-made history and our own misdeeds haunts the landscapes around us.
-Sage Marshall, author of
Echolocations Tributaries is as meditative as it is demanding. The collection utilizes both linguistics and novel vocabulary to pull the reader on a journey of ecopoetics and despite everything an undercurrent of hope.
-Joshua Robinson, editor of
Screaming at America: An Anthology of Dissent, and author of
This Way to Exit,
Millennialism & New Poems, and
Homeless with God. This book is an evocative sip of American heartland heartbreak. Aspen Everette writes with a ghost-like precision, his questions a haunting; inviting each of us to journey with him to a place where we are all lost and thus- where we can truly be present, because our preconceived ideas are fragments on the wind.
-Elizabeth Woods-Darby, author of the upcoming
Bones We Made Together The poems read like a kind of embodied prayer that comes from a place of deep connection with the more-than-human-world with language that at times feels incantatory with a mythic quality.
-Anna Citrino, author of
A Space Between Everett writes with a sure hand and a deep heart and you can feel it all the way through this collection, asking us in, like striking matches in the dark - Will your soul need Britta filtration? What is the color of laughter? - This chapbook is full of beautiful beasts of poetry, ones that knock the wind right out of you, and then somehow give it back. The way all great poetry should.
-Elizabeth Woods-Darby, author of the forthcoming
Bones We Made Together The poems in Everett's
Tributariestouch the vulnerable space of unknowing we currently live in with its grief and beauty found in equal measure.
-Anna Citrino, author of
A Space Between In the words of our Colorado Poet Laureate, Andrea Gibson, "
it hurts to become"; this collection pushes through the pain of the anthropocene becoming something more alive, revealing limbs reaching for a better world. The poems in this collection are never so binary to choose to be a meditation on climate grief or to choose to elevate the natural world. They are a both/and, a queering, an honesty. There is a beautiful disobedience that Everett encourages us to join him for, where we too "
ignore the no trespassing warnings", "
follow the river" and lose our way.
-Brice Maiurro, author of
The Heart is an Undertaker Bee Aspen Everett is a poet and creative from the wind-tossed flatlands of Southeast Kansas. Writing what they call
Heathen Mythology, Aspen aims to rewrite the cultural myths of dominion and return readers to reverence for the More-than-Human. Following fetid rivers upstream until the waters ran clean, they find themselves in Boulder Colorado, beneath the shadow of Mt. Arapaho.
Tributaries is their first book.
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