Arousing Notoriety by A. Minetta Gould



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32 pages
80 pages
6 x 7.5"
Split side with Amber Nelson
Cover art by Kelly Packer

Advance praise from Catherine Wagner, author of My New Job:
What a strange batch of lovers: Banjo, Bear, Bow Tie, Half Organ, Russia, and Strong Heart. But love is a strange affair, and A. Minetta Gould's language, wry, rowdy and ingenious, mocks it up, down, and all around.

from Janaka Stucky, publisher of Black Ocean books:
Arousing Notoriety operates in the realm of dream logic, and by that I mean Gould gestures through apparent acts of pure consciousness that appear stripped of mundane symbolism—exposing the impulsivity of language. In that sense, what we see here are poems of desire without want or lust—poems of desire in its most elemental state, utterly at play.

About the book and its author:
Arousing Notoriety is a collection of poems about affairs between peculiar characters named Banjo and Bear, Russia and Half Organ and Strong Heart. Gould edits the online journal Lonesome Fowl and is the Associate Editor for Black Ocean. She has recent work published in Columbia Poetry Review, Unsaid, and New Orleans Review. Another chapbook, Dutch Baby Combo and The Boys are Talking about Restless at Five Points, will be available from Spooky Girlfriend Press.