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POETRY
110 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)
Publication Date: October 2021
ISBN 9781931824989
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Oct 2021)
Holly Melgard’s Fetal Position is a poetic experiment with six forms of labor. Fetal Position employs a range of formal techniques for exploring occasions like the noise of being born as a child’s erotic experience, child abuse, a woman catcalling a construction worker, and the exploitation of child and student labor. Working through concerns for her own indebted, futureless generation, Melgard’s text shows how the present is mortgaged to the future. Voices, not the poet’s, speak and live: A mother, a full-time employee, a deranged cat lady, an afflicted predator. Fetal Position gives voice to bleak, oblique, and obliterated futures. “The fetal position is a meditation on the form,” as the poet puts it, that struggles for emergence against suppressive forces and perennial terrors.
Fetal Position arrives as Holly Melgard’s first full-length book of poetry with an outside publisher. For a decade she has published on the platform she co-founded and edited, the experimental, collectively run P.O.D. + .pdf platform Troll Thread. She is the author of the Poems for Baby trilogy, Black Friday, and the chapbooks Catcall and Divisions of Labor. With a PhD in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo, she currently works as a freelance book designer and teaches writing at NYU and CUNY.