In development
Death & Chocolate
In a Dance with Demons · Poems of Pleasure’s Purity
Peter Liptak
Poems of desire, mortality, coffee-shop conversation, and the strange places a word can lead.
This book is taking shape. A publication date and purchase edition have not been announced here.
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The Death & Chocolate manuscript moves between appetite and absence, dark intimacy and sudden play. A chance request for a word becomes a torrent of language in “The Word.” An espresso sets a conversation in motion in “No Sadness Cafe.” Even a blue baseball cap can become a question that will not quite leave you alone.
These poems give pleasure and unease room to share the dance floor. Desire, death, wit, and the ordinary details of being alive keep finding their way into one another’s company.
In a Dance with Demons.
The collection and its visual form are in development. The supplied cover brings its darker, more seductive side forward, with a dance shaped around the ampersand joining Death & Chocolate. The poems themselves remain the starting point.