Desiree Remick holds a BFA in creative writing from Southern Oregon University. She is also the fiction editor of Nude Bruce Review. Her work has won awards, most recently Bacopa Literary Review’s Free Verse Poetry Award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Reed Magazine, ANMLY, The Avenue, Westchester Review, and other places. Find her on Instagram @remick_writes.
PRAISE:
Desiree Remick’s poems are marvelous weddings of formal elegance to sudden ruptures of meaning and equilibrium. They shuttle between contemplative pastoral and visceral responses to the absurdity of everyday existence. Unimaginable violations, both personal and global, dart out at us in the midst of serenity. So too do joyous emanations, like “algal blooms” and “the world’s most beautiful scissors.” What a world of beauty and pain within these few pages!
–K. Silem Mohammad, author of Deer Head Nation
These poems see us, show us, through the big end of binoculars, the “objective” lens, then bear down into the microscope’s brightfield, with new kinds of resolutions, parfocal, and with the working distance needed to bring us closer.
–Vincent Craig Wright, author of Redemption Center
Picture the ebb and flow of the tides, undulating murky and pristine, hiding bones and treasures then laying them bare at your feet within a breath. Picture skirting the liminal, dreaming and waking between worlds tethered by absence and memory, birds flying widdershins above. Picture an immeasurable distance across which an echo may travel forever, each ripple an act of love. It is precisely in this ethereal space where A Longing with No Nomenclature is meant to be read. Remick’s inaugural chapbook will pierce your soul with its gorgeous language, flawless formal play, and abundance in bareness. Every word is intentional; every line is crisply curated, amplifying quotidian images to the cusp of sacred. Would you love / me if I could no longer see / your silhouette? / For this, / there is no cure. Render me the best kind of afflicted.
–Andrew Alexander Mobbs, author of In These Glorious Pastures
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