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THE SHOES OF OUR GUESTS: POEMS

CELESTE GOYER
ISBN 979-8-9866258-4-3
Publication date: OCTOBER 2023
Format: 6 by 9 inches, PAPERBACK
82 pages

To read this collection of prose poems is to leap into the teeming waters of dream. The nature and identity of everything here shapeshifts moment to moment. Time unfurls in new ways. Personification reigns, endowing all that exists with agency and otherworldly imperatives. “Dust loves its job filling holes.” “Now the word ‘small’ reappears and talks to me.” “I’m vaguely jealous
to see my evening dresses walking about the garden without me...” “...a wheatfield’s busy kneeling in my bathtub.” Buried cities, hidden entrances, and secret fields beckon, offering up yet also keeping their tantalizing mysteries just beyond our reach. It’s a
treat to read a female surrealist who maintains such unfettered access to her admirable imagination.
—AMY GERSTLER

This lovely, elegiac, surreal—with true wit—procession contains a washing of the language. The phrases, images, juxtapositions, & the way Celeste Goyer transforms them, are new & exciting. This trip is fun, & illuminating!
—HARRY E. NORTHUP
CELESTE GOYER is a poet and visual artist living in Los Angeles, CA. She edited a literary quarterly for fourteen years and her poems have appeared in Aperçus Quarterly, Scoundrel Time and The Columbia Review, among others. Celeste is a member of the Wild Orchid Collective, based in Venice, CA, an interdisciplinary literary and visual arts group. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Celeste Goyer has lived in California since age 11, mostly in remote towns of the Mojave and Great Basin deserts.
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