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Dogpark Collective, paperback

Publication Date: April 13, 2022

Publisher Marketing:In WEIRDING, Lindsey Boldt invites the reader into bewilderment–to travel with her across states of consciousness and affective registers and search for a means of survival within an empire set to self-destruct mode. Inhabiting an array of guises and postures to act as both speaker and receiver, Boldt flips a switch and her body becomes a conduit, a site of experiment: My hand is my antenna / and it works. Squirrels offer instruction, portals pop open, and the old gods command the poet, Be on my back for it / Be on my back for / a wild thing to have. It is the gift of Boldt’s poetry that this wildness–the transmutation of existential dread into futures worthy of the excessive ecstasies of Charli XCX–becomes ours through her invitation to join the circle of her word: I had a magic connection / but needed you to / make it go.