Sticky Little Deaths, by Giselle DaMier

Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Sticky Little Deaths is a provocative collection of bite-sized poems that sometimes sting. The speaker moves through a clumsy terrain of intimacy, retrospectively reconstructed by the author who spent her own adolescence in isolation. In this way, the poems give voice to a self that might have been: a girl allowed to be altered by wanting and giving. In this half-imagined world of tender surrender, girlhood is a perennial garden that we lovingly regress to, regardless of the time of transformation.

Throughout these pages, the nectar of curiosity is made into honey through an excruciating and exciting process. We witness the sloppy harnessing of seduction across spring gardens, city parks, and the kitchen floor. Sometimes these changes happen in the sun, others under the moon — but they are all short, sweet, and sticky.

Giselle DaMier is a story writer who usually finds herself on Route 66 or the banks of the Seine. Her diverse portfolio stretches from magazine articles to award-winning screenplays. However, she has a deep passion for poetry and prose. Her surreal flash fiction has appeared in various literary magazines and this is her debut chapbook. Inspired by Anaïs Nin, E.E. Cummings, and Sappho, Giselle DaMier seeks to blend delicate language with indiscreet imagery.