Dolce Vita/Let There Be a Little Light, by Nicole Tallman

Poetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Dolce Vita/Let There Be a Little Light is an experimental flip chapbook exploring the contrast between reality and dreamscape.

Inspired by the autofiction of Tove Ditlevsen, Marguerite Duras, and Marcel Proust, and the poetry of Richie Hofmann, Jean-Baptiste Pedini, and Diane Seuss, Dolce Vita is an intimate lyrical diary, revealing 15-line flashes of queer life over the course of a year and centering on digital dependency, despondency, and dying desire.

Inspired by Sylvia Plath and written in the early-morning hours she described as “blue,” Let There Be a Little Light reveals surreal 10-line flashes of the speaker's daily transition from dark to light, from dream back to reality.

Praise for Nicole Tallman:

“Nicole Tallman is a poet looking for the truth.”

—Alex Dimitrov, Author of Ecstasy

“Nicole Tallman writes poems for everyone and everything.”

—Adrian Dallas Frandle, Author of Book of Extraction“

Nicole Tallman’s poems highlight the beauty and heartbreak we live through.”

—Jared Beloff, Author of Who Will Cradle Your Head

“Nicole Tallman understands that the great labor is to go into the mysteries, to let them do their work, to let them shake us until we are truly here.”

—Joseph Fasano, Author of The Last Song of the World

“Nicole Tallman has found a way to connect us all.”

—Maureen Seaton, Author of The Sky Is an Elephant

Nicole Tallman lives in Miami, where she serves as the official Poetry Ambassador. She is the author of four poetry books and a collaborative novel. Find her on social media @natallman and at nicoletallman.com.