Dog Day Economy

About the Author\nTed Rees is a poet, essayist, and editor who lives and works in Philadelphia. His most recent book of poetry, THANKSGIVING: A POEM (Golias Books, 2020), was a finalist for a 2021 Lambda Literary Award. His first book was IN BRAZEN FONTANELLE AFLAME (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) and chapbooks include the soft abyss, The New Anchorage, and Outlaws Drift in Every Vehicle of Thought. He is the founder and co- editor of Asterion Projects, and editor-at-large for The Elephants.\n"Vocabularies of decaying presence and economic despair tumble together in Ted Rees's DOG DAY ECONOMY, enacting conflicts of late capitalism where the body is squandered in endless ramshackle systems of flow. This is exacting, spontaneous poetry of intimacy and distance, of longshots and dubious bodily substances. I am reminded of Saint-John Perse's ANABASE, though of course Rees's grandeur comes from the other end of the telescope: 'Like we were riding through desert:/ polite way to say/we were seeing nought but mayhem/in each other's viscera.' The image can go anywhere, but where is it going? Collaging and repurposing gives these poems the external feeling of a sublimely blathering oracle, and by that I mean they hide and reveal fascinating predictions of our doom."--Robert Gl¸ck
Poetry.