"(al)most delicious is like the thoughts of a figure in a painting. But more than that it is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the theme of artist and model. Or like a room of mirrors in which looking and being seen are erotic, and creator, creation and observer are locked in a love triangle of reflection and illusion. Enter, listen to the voices and the music, you will be rewarded."
-Richard Garcia
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Cover illustration by Amy Payne.
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"Like bees extracting pollen, Cati Porter has found the rich and mysterious nourishment of the things in front of us, the poetry in plain view. In deceptively simple language, she startles us into insights. We're presented with a delightfully off-kilter world where a woman weds a tree while "the wind administers vows," where another woman, "large with grief and belly full of bees," would like to scream but finds "her mouth has become a honeycomb, her teeth and tongue coated in golden duress." Small fruit songs is nothing short of delicious."
-- Beth Ann Fennelly
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"Ahadada Books is pleased to announce the publication of what Desire makes of us by Cati Porter, an electronic chapbook with illustrations by Amy Payne.
The series of poems that comprises what Desire makes of us was conceived of during April of 2009 in celebration of National Poetry Month (NaPoWriMo) in response to poem-a-day prompts provided by Robert Brewer on his Writers Digest/Poetic Asides Blog. An anthropomorphic personification of one of life’s basest instincts, Desire haunts our narrator, culminating in a surrealistic exploration of what it could mean to be literally consumed by Desire."