HELIOTROPIC
POEMS BY DOUG BOOTES
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Thought provoking and heartfelt, Heliotropic offers a working nomad’s lyrical meditations on the littoral regions of the southern US. Coast to coast, sea-level to high desert; from a barrier island’s shore, the trail, or from the interstate, these poems explore the intersectionality over time of cultures, geography, and language. Rooted in Appalachia, the poet’s voice elevates sound over meaning, allowing the individual reader to experience their own unique imagery and self-determined meaning while exploring the inner and outer realms we together inhabit. In the kind and inimitable words of James Stevens – “With a perfect ear, Bootes chooses words that move our sensory boats to the place ‘our discordant coastlines migrate.’ Heliotropic is a gift for your mind.”
“Heliotropic is a collection of poems from the littoral. Bootes’ poems originate between the Gulf Coast and the dry inland seas of high desert. Their sound blooms in the poetic ear like seeds from “the blown apart shattered.” A poet of milkweed, latex glyphs, roadrunners, and settler green tentacles. With a perfect ear, Bootes chooses words that move our sensory boats to the place “our discordant coastlines migrate.” Heliotropic is a gift for your mind.”
–James Thomas Stevens, author of The Golden Book and A Bridge Dead in the Water.
“If you’ve ever held a broken-winged bird that’s fallen from its nest, fed it cornmeal mush and nursed it to health. Waited for it to fly, then waited for its return. Listened for its songs of history through wind, where Kentucky blue grass grows, and all the other places it’s been. That’s what these poems do. Breakneck and tenderly. Forget all your prayers and open your palms.”
–Karen Vargas, Taos Author
maelstrom
BY DOUG BOOTES
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An outrageous odyssey of the 21st century, Maelstrom is the first collection of poems from Doug Bootes. These sometimes hilarious and often heart wrenching characters and their stories will leave you breathless.
“Doug Bootes’ collection detonates his inimitable rapture of language and life with ‘free range terror’ as ‘don quixote steers an alarming red motorized wheelchair while jousting with six lanes of bipolar windmill traffic,’ and ‘morrison’s echo drops off a Rolex at the crib of a dying pimp.’ There is nothing but pure, brilliant insight into the hilarity, absurdity, heartache and beauty of humanity in all its twisted facets in this debut collection. Bootes is unique and necessary. Get a copy.”
– Meg Tuite, author of Bound by Blue.
“Doug Bootes’ poems are potent sticks of dynamite, with each fuse lit and sizzling. He takes the reader on an unexpected journey, one that is viscerally enthralling. It is rare to find a writer in such command of the form, delivering pieces that take you out at the knees.”
– Len Kuntz, author of Dark Sunshine.
