Cosmic Nervosa
Joy Waller
2024 Moon Hotel Press
Cover art: Simon Kalajdjiev
¥1,000
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Poems & fragments desperate to make peace with the kind of everyday tension you live with when you’ve got a set of supernovas in your head instead of eyeballs.
Praise for Cosmic Nervosa…
A truly Steinbeckian celebration of humanity’s intricate dance with nature & society, with echoes of Hakuin, the zen master and sometimes poet.
– Jake Adenstein, Tokyo VicePacing between sexcapades and solitude, Waller’s poems undress Tokyo from its neon glitz and show us the genuine disheveled parts of it too.
– Zoria Petkoska K, WordigamiJoy’s work is ‘so damn happy’ – a blessing, a curse, and again a blessing for all who read and allow her words to be at the cutting edge of our collective cosmic nerve.
– Barbara Summerhawk, Wake Me with a ShoutThese exquisite poems go forth – to paraphrase Walt Whitman – hankering & mystical. In lines vibrant as Tokyo neon, this work both deranges and brings us to our senses.
– Aaron Anstett, What Now