Official Release Date October 17, 2023
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“V.C. Myers’ Ophelia, extracted from the barest bones of the Bard’s language, is an agent of her own magic, untethered from the men who toss her personhood around from hand to hand. In between: poems of resistance, the horror of nature, the horror of the flesh, resentment and outrage at a world of vultures, lined up to carve their pounds of flesh. These poems are an exhale, a bloodletting—excising and displaying, as if pinned to a board in a natural history museum, the many various violences of a world arrayed against anything unlike the recognizable. Read them.”
– Chase Berggrun, author of R E D
“Ophelia is a reclamation and a wild cry, a flower of blood and ruin. Myers draws the gothic undercurrents from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to center Ophelia’s desires, betrayals, and trauma, pairing them with poems whose lush vibrancy shatters into violence across the page. Myers’ Ophelia recalls the verdant rot of Millais’ famous painting, Ophelia sinking into the dark currents, surrounded by riotous leaves. The beautiful is suffused with a brutality that threatens but also lures, vampiric and mesmerizing.”
– Elizabeth Sylvia, author of None but Witches
“Ophelia calls with siren song…dark, brooding energy, dangerous, ornamental imagery…Myers has woven a tapestry of something beautiful out of darkness. Dare to let the tendrils of these poems snake around your ankles and haunt your dreams.”
– Mela Blust, author of They Found a Woman’s Body
“Ophelia is a praise-song for survivors…incantatory vengeance, festering and furious on behalf of all women who’ve been abused, chewed up, devoured, assaulted. Myers bravely and honestly probes the question: How does one heal when “trauma is a muscle memory, / [the] body longs to forget”?”
– Dayna Patterson, author of O Lady, Speak Again
“A lighthouse amid the tempestuous sea of self, bridging intimate experiences and universal truths. A trenchant commentary on our era. What a book!”
– Adedayo Agarau, author of The Arrival of Rain
“Ophelia is a chorus of silenced women’s songs…Smart, stunning, brilliant, Myers’ collection is a testament to women’s voices, the power imbued when we are given the space to speak.”
– Jessica Drake-Thomas, author of Burials
“Timeless and transcendent. This book opens us all up to our vulnerabilities and imaginations.”
– Joanna C. Valente, author of η ψυχή, η ψυχή μας | the soul, our soul
“A beautiful collection of brutal truths, Myers’ Ophelia echoes in the hollows left by women’s voices unheard.”
-Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart
Official Release Date October 17, 2023
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