It's Vexations! Published in March 2023 by the University of Chicago Press. Winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Also longlisted for the National Book Award.

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Love,
Annelyse

READ MORE: The University of Chicago Press
AN EXCERPT: Poetry Daily
ANOTHER EXCERPT: Harper's

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Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter’s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion.
 
Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman’s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader’s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.