LADYBIRD BUG BOY
VALLUM CHAPBOOK SERIES NO. 24
Winner of the 2018 Vallum Chapbook Award
ZACH PEARL
Zach Pearl’s first collection of poetry in fifteen years, Ladybird Bug Boy, is a bold and cerebral montage of his past and present selves. Teen spirit rubs against 30-something banality, urban ideas intersect small town living, and personal malaise is infected by global dis-ease. Through an assemblage of voices and tropes, Pearl crafts a deeply personal folklore that is dark and witty as it probes the increasingly performative nature of identity in our media-driven culture: Masks are essential. Icebergs are enviable. And myriad ghosts (real and imagined) invade the text and haunt the margins.
“Breaths inside breaths give panic and pause
to the escalating multitude of guests
squatting in my soliloquy.
How can I evict the ambivalent?”
Author’s Bio
Zach Pearl is an American-Canadian writer, designer and educator. Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, his work is often informed by the tensions of city living in farm country and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. Zach is also co-founder and Managing Editor of KAPSULA, a digital publication for experimental arts writing and sits on the board for Mechademia, a biannual journal for studies in Asian popular cultures
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Table of contents
ladybird bug boy
playthings
performing the moon
the Wikipedia remix of William F. Graham
the ghost of Mary Shelley in the time of migrant crisis
visitors
golem
negative space
Abigail
(thinking of you)
porcupine sleeves
retrospective
personator
sorry, not sorry
doing my part for the environment
swans
alien phenomenology
35 pp. total
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