Wholesale Pre-order: Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn

Note: This title will ship on June 25, 2025 Rhoni Blankenhorn's Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet is filled with junk food, violence, talking shit, grocery store chains, and a certain cool-girl bravado that exposes what it feels like to be both alive and haunted by one's aliveness at this particular moment in time. Late capitalist subjectivity pulses throughout this book as a kind of nonsensical, paralytic death. Though it is in this reverence for individual irrelevance that I witness something unusual, something profane and monstrous and very, very human in the speaker's delicious untrustworthiness. These tricky oscillations throughout Blankenhorn's poems-between collectivity and singularity, between death and the connectivity of being alive, between disaffection and deep compassion-are what make this book feel so vital, so very magic in its wry kick against the machine of our individual lives.