Collage Poems of Drafts Jon Savage There are things Chelsea Devantez

There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn't be telling you

And they'll scare you straight to hell

a man who calls himself a king

Those hookups used to be fun

and what begins as a refuge for both men inevitably buckles under the intensity of navigating a world that wants them to refuse what they are

Collage Poems of Drafts Jon Savage There are things Chelsea DevantezThe Collage Poems of Drafts are two sequenced works for reading and looking that move back and forth across the porous border between language and image. These mixed media constructions join the whole long poem project by DuPlessis with a particular flair for juxtaposition and evocativeness beyond and within language.