Oracle Smoke Machine
$28Poems by Christianne Goodwin paired with prints by Stephen Proski. Perfect bound paperback with full color artwork. First edition.
Reviews:
AGNI (by Arielle Kaplan)
The Boston Globe (by Nina MacLaughlin)
Harvard Review (by Adam Krasnoff)
Psaltry & Lyre (by Annaka Saari)
Solstice Literary Magazine (by Michael McCarthy)
“In the live-wire poems of Christianne Goodwin, borders between terrains like grief and laughter shift and vibrate. Goodwin has found a like spirit in the art of Stephen Proski. On these facing pages, two imaginations have an inspired, familial kind of conversation.”
— Robert Pinsky
“Oracle Smoke Machine achieves a striking synthesis of word and image. Goodwin’s poems reproduce visions—the Queen of I-90, the devil, the face in a dinner plate—while Proski’s prints, with their colorful, layered syntax of iconic cutouts, unfold like sentences. One artist captions the other, enchanted figures charging the American and Central European landscape with ominous meaning. The result is an inspired collaboration whose fantastic vehicles feel strangely familiar—‘tall tales which / somehow sound like memory.’”— Cyrus Console