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“Witty and self-deprecating and instantly relatable.”
-VALLUM
Written over the course of two summers following the poet’s 33rd birthday.
Longing for an irretrievable beach paradise ✔
Yearning for an abandoned tower to hide in ✔
(Failing to) deal with ageing by building a hot transcendent yoga body ✔
Loving convenience in spite of yourself ✔
A manifesto against self-optimization ✔
Blasé satanism ?
An elegy for desire ✔
A meditation on death ?
A bisexual epic ✔
An unrelenting affirmation that “this world is all there is” ✔
Obsession, delusion, solitude, longing. That’s the thing with The Island.
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THE ISLAND, a book-length haiku by Oscar d'Artois
with artwork by Mad Manning
Coming June 4th, 2024
it recedes again
forever moving away
the island of course
is not real, a construct of
imagination
it’s not like i’ve never been
but there’s a difference
between how i represent
it in my mind’s eye
& how things actually are
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“A fast life lived in an existential daze with a pop-punk poetic consciousness.”
-DAZED
Praise for Oscar d'Artois
“I loved so many references in The Island. Cold brew, yoga, spritzes, consumer culture, the internet, queerness... So funny and real and sparkly"
- Chloe Caldwell, author of WOMEN
“A book of fantasy built on internet dreams and nostalgia for what never existed: the fantasy of an eternal American youth, the wish that love can save us, the hope that we can practice for death. A re-projection of the images projected on us every day. An affirmation that as misguided as we are, we too deserve poetry.”
- Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley
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Oscar d’Artois is a writer & translator who was born in 1989 in Paris, France. He is also the author of TEEN SURF GOTH (Metatron Press, 2015) and lives mostly out of a suitcase.
Illustrations by Mad Manning
ISBN: 978-1-7379242-6-5
Retail price: $16
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