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Martin Pousson
Martin Pousson takes the hard-earned wisdom he's gained as an American outsider three times over—Southerner, Cajun, and queer—and lets it dissolve on his burning poet's tongue.
Martin Pousson was born and raised in Acadiana, in Louisiana Bayouland. His acclaimed first novel, No Place, Louisiana, was a finalist for the John Gardner Award in Fiction and has been translated into French. He has taught at Columbia University in New York and at 826 Valencia in San Francisco. He now teaches at Loyola University and lives in New Orleans. Sugar is his first book of poetry.
"Here is the poet Louisiana has always wanted. Gulf Coast heat turns into huge trees and lush flora, which then turn into sex and dramatic dialogue. Desire so metamorphic inevitably slides toward hallucination. To convey experience at the edge, Martin Pousson has invented a new poetics that takes from the earlier art only its intense imagery and verbal economy. The few dozen pages of Sugar bring a tragic and sensuous bayou mindscape unforgettably to life."
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