BEDIEVAL

forthcoming from CLOAK in 2027

Early Praise for Bedieval:

"BEDIEVAL stretches across the ages—peahens, cell phones, pyres, epidurals, salt lamps, cauldrons, tubes of lipstick, historical torture… objects swirl in a surreal, timeless detritus to investigate the conditions of the female body, to ask how our agency begins and ends. What language do we need to identify ourselves against our illnesses? Ellen Boyette’s BEDIEVAL tinkers, thinks, and maintains poetry about and for the body’s recovery—and we’re left breathless from its imagination and scope."

-Solmaz Sharif

The poems are vibrant, sonically dense, long-line-elegant and aurally astonishing. This manuscript is full of unexpected textures, humors, and references with a kind of mesmerizing stretchy density; a total delight.

-Shane McCrae