Pre-Order Splice by Anthony Borruso

... the witty juxtapositions of philosophical artistic conversations, allusions to cinema and cinematic moments, the absurdity of celebrity culture, and ultimately the inescapability of our mortality. While through art the assumption is that one can become immortal, the poems in Splice ask us, "really?" With incredible verve and a large dose of self-deprecating humor, the poet skillfully weaves essential questions about our existence as we look to the legacies preserved for us for the answers. We find, in these poems, sometimes behind the prop door there's a brick wall . . . and sometimes, joy.

-- Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets and Poet Laureate of Worcester, Massachusetts

Anthony Borruso is the winner of the Louise Bogan Excellence in Poetry Award for his first collection, Splice; He is a former editor of The Southeast Review. He is a 2023 Best New Poet and was selected as a finalist for Beloit Poetry Journal's Adrienne Rich Award by Natasha Trethewey. His poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, THRUSH, Gulf Coast, CutBank, Frontier and elsewhere.