Featuring poet Kimberly Lambright (Doom Glove, PRROBLEM PRESS), along with Emily Kendal Frey, Kevin Sampsell, and Kirk Read.

About Doom Glove:

Pub date: September 16, 2024. ISBN 9798991148900. 80 pages. 8.5" x 11". Cover is printed on a Kelsey Exlcelsior Model O letterpress. Book is bound using Chicago screws.

Kimberly Lambright is a poet for whom impression is currency and mood is form. Doom Glove, Lambright's second collection, works with the lyric just as much as against it. These poems are, by turns, surrealist, riotous, and sincere—the confessional past inside the tonal present. Like us, they "lug their own myth to the party." 

What's at stake in Doom Glove is possibility itself: the unlikely—"out here in the gosh"—becomes not only likely but necessary. If this be doom, one size fits all.

Doom Glove is a study in girlhood that is perverted, twisted, reworked. It offers a synesthetic language that is not at all synthetic. In fact, it’s the opposite—through a cacophony of images, these poems explore deeper truths about the self as female anti-hero—both “the party" and “the quiet room in the party.” Be prepared for roses that laugh up, pudding that won’t feed you, and scents that dig into the skin. Be prepared most of all to examine the darker sides of desire, damage, intimacy, and rage—the power of writing to invite something in, and then send it out again.

—Sara Deniz Akant, author of Hyperphantasia and Babette