I rise I will not fall for I know that I will get to the top as I rise to all my glory and potential

– Carolyn Overs

Not Pleasure to Keep Clean Your Dishes

Traveling the world and into the sky, Not Pleasure to Keep Clean Your Dishes is a book of letters, heartbreak, rivalry, and healing. The authors tackle weighty choices: “Don’t go in the door, door 1 in pain and suffering / Door 2 in the part you left, go to the right to make your life / alright” (“What I See”). They tell strange tales: “when he died his spirit woke me up and tickled my feet” (“Ghost Story”). And they have theories about love—”love is thicker mud” (“Zadie and Simone”) and “love is like a thought” (“Love, What Is It?”). This book holds stories of sleeping on the moon and strange noises in the house. Everywhere, these writers see beauty where others do not: “I see in my center all my friends who forget that they / are good” (“People”).

 

Book 75	Summer 2021