Poet Republik Ltd. is pleased to announce the publication of Mark Lamoureux’s, poetry book of hours, Horologion.
Mark Lamoureux’s poems form a druids’ circle for the precarious worker. Their everyday vibrates in mythic structures.
A Shepherd’s calendar in a vortex of cosmic energy and office-worker angst. Lamoureux’s compressed poems are impossibly poised and smoking with the eternal.
~ Joe Hall, Someone’s Utopia (Black Ocean, 2018)
Horologion, Mark Lamoreux’s brilliant Book of Hours, is an impressive suite of intriguing poems honoring the daily moments that create the illusion of time in this, our time of illusions. His poems sing as they keep time. They are lyrical hymns to the hours that capture the inequity of days gone by. Behind the hours and the seasons that mark our lives, these poems honor, in particular detail, the beauty and passion of a poet fully engaged in the world. Through the focused lens of his poetic eye, Lamoureux celebrates the moment with poems that triumph with feeling over forgetting, offering beautiful poetic visions over the mundane blindness of our daily routines. It’s “now or later/ now or never.”
~ Jim Dunn, author of Soft Launch
Lamoureux’s collection is fierce, powerful, and tender. It begins with a letter to the speaker’s unborn daughter, setting the tone for the book, a calm before the storm, an incubation of life: “Over the years the talking/computers in TV shows/began to sound more/& more human in this world,/which to you will be like a movie/you haven’t seen.” The book is keenly aware of its physical reality, its conception as a moment in time and body: “Real/time/of desire, elsewho:/in another zone/in other shoes,” which was a constant reminder of who we are and will be and have been, as a the reader. This collection reminds you of who you are, and who you love, and how to pause in the first place, to drink it all in. The last words of the collection say it all: “when you need & when you will not need/me: I love you./I love you.”
~ Joanna C. Valente, author of Marys of the Sea and editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault.
cover art by: Lissa Rivera
cover design: Michael Willis willisdesignstudio.com
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