Little motors: some love letters, by Justin Lacour

Poetry, chapbook, 52 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

In Little motors, Justin Lacour writes love letters that incorporate art, mythology, politics, B movies, and Keanu Reeves. Little motors seeks romance and intimacy amid the familiarity and mysterious power dynamics of marriage. In Lacour’s poem, “Marriage is this animal with two heads,/one body,” something awkward but also magical. As the poem progresses, the couple tells each other stories, myths, and fairy tales, gradually transforming their marriage into an epic of their own.

The love letters of Little motors are comic, tender, and vulnerable, comfortable with classical literature, but also with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Little motors plays with the conventions of the romantic poem while, at the same time, never giving up on finding that place in marriage where “there’s no darkness between us.”

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans with his wife and three children, and edits Trampoline. He is the author of five chapbooks of poems and his first full-length collection, A Season in Heck & Other Poems, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press.