The new Shipwrecked Sailor album is here, have some liner notes

“you tatter at twilight. Soiled / little prince, what have you done? // What have you done to our field?” – Srikanth Reddy, “Fifth Circle”

“remind you // those who wear the crown must wear it / as a crown / it cannot be worn as a hat” – Adrian Sobol, “gradation of american hunger”

“living on a houseboat is a thing adults do / and the sky is full of helicopters.” – Amorak Huey, “Everything I Know About Life I Learned from 1980s Action Shows”

“‘The sun is shining’ is a dead sentence. ‘The sun is crying’ is closer to a living one. Living sentences have teeth. Even between the lines.” – Lee Seong-bok, ‘Indeterminate Inflorescence’

“They name a sandwich after you, then a street. Each day, you feel yourself shrinking against the image of your one true act.” – Adrian Sobol, “weiner dog”

“Poetry is where things miss the mark or go against the grain. Like linking ‘library’ with ‘underwear’ instead of ‘books.'” – Lee Seong-bok, ‘Indeterminate Inflorescence’

“Longing for paradise crowded the beliefs of reasonable people. / Reasonable people longing for experimentation.” – Bob Sykora, “Various American Utopias, Abridged Version”

“Poetry is what is unsayable. To blurt out what is unsayable is to ignore this fundamental premise.” – Lee Seong-bok, ‘Indeterminate Inflorescence: lectures on poetry’

“How white everything was, from / neighbors to church, to storybooks— / like on cloudy days when / the sky is all glare.” – Han VanderHart, “Partial List of Hauntings”