Apocryphal

Lisa Marie Basile's first full-length collection of poetry is the essence of summer-noir -- detailing vice, sexuality and grief through luscious poetics. Set in a Lynchian seaside town, Apocryphal is a holy, girly, neurotic text obsessed with its own secret, dark world. Apocryphal attempts at truth but is littered with false memories and untenable hopes. THE RUMPUS says, "I came to Lisa Marie Basile's Apocryphal eager to travel off the beaten paths--of genre, of narrative, of self-disclosure and self-discovery. I was never once disappointed."