Mistaken for Loud Comets

By Lily Someson

Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of The Host Publications Chapbook Prize, Spring 2021. MISTAKEN FOR LOUD COMETS is a collection of poems that intertwines experiences around incarceration, queerness, and the Black body in America. In this chapbook, lily someson leads us through the Indiana dunes, into dusk air as incarcerated men are beamed into the heavens, and into the rooms of a house she built around herself, creating a world without confinement. someson's poetic genius can be felt in her fortitude --she embraces the storm with startling empathy, and within these poems, offers up her most vulnerable moments alongside her most resolute proclamations of selfhood, claiming space on the page as if fighting for her birthright. Exploring the outermost limits of identity with a gentle, inquiring mind, someson lets the poems in MISTAKEN FOR LOUD COMETS be everything/ all at once.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924047933
• ISBN13: 9780924047930
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Host Publications
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.