“In his debut book of poems, Coachella Elegy, Christian Gullette delivers a collection that pays tribute to “the queer promised lands and poolside utopias of the American West.”
From Palm Springs to Santa Cruz and Sonoma, Gullette describes the state of California in grand and glaring contradictions. West Coast landmarks are tangible subjects, with memories and meaning attached to their boundaries. The verses meander and curve, like a warm wind on an open highway—but they are going places you will not find on a map.
Coachella Elegy (Trio House Press) has been described as intimate, erotic, foreboding, elegant and even sly. Gullette chooses language that is striking in its spareness, with the works rendered in trim, tightly wound observations. The poems are small bites, supremely digestible, but densely populated…”
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