Kirjahaku

Set in Occupy-era New York City, this novel follows sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance in the lives of three women: A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom; her best friend Mel is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world, who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie's. In the midst of economic collapse and class conflict, late-night hookups and long-suffering exes, the three characters piece together a new American identity founded on resistance--against the looming shadow of financial precarity, the gentrification of New York, and the traditional role of wife. "Audacious and exhilarating in its candor, The Not Wives captures the heady mix of pleasures and agonies necessary to turn one's life in a new, truer direction. Carley Moore attends to the complexities of urban living and activism with riveting clarity." --Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew

Bring your heart, your sweet heart, tender and busted, and "step through" into Carley Moore's dazzling new poems. Heart Less gifts readers good intimate company on a city street, in a bar, and on the page-whether one's heart is hurt, on ice, or thawed out. Moore takes us on a wild razor scooter ride through NYC and to a Time portal: to a garbage dump for the past self, or "all horizon, all vista" for the future self. And, for those with a hard heart, hag heart, smarting heart, Moore's poems offer a poem ritual to survive middle age, dating online, and parenting. Carley's own heart, a "waterfall" of worry and desire, charmed and crushed me in these poems, full of word-and-sound play, role play and foreplay. Step through all lovers, misfits, parents, dreamers, and rioters Heart Less is the book for you. -Camille Guthrie, author of DIAMONDSHeart Less instantly places Carley Moore in the pantheon of essential New York School poets. In this long-awaited debut, these 'hard hurting animal' poems lead us to whimsy and weariness, often in the same stanza. Moore transforms motherhood and the human ritual of bodies old and new, pre and post, set inside a list-making candor and process. These are poems that are unafraid to stop in the middle of the street to write a poem, to embrace our dumb hearts, to 'stack feelings, smash them together' and 'crush them until they're gone.' This breakthrough collection demands our attention. -Daniel Nester, author of Harsh Realm: My 1990s, How to Be Inappropriate, God Save My Queen: A Tribute, and many othersThe heart becomes a character in these poems perhaps talking to the heart in O'Hara's pocket walking the same streets of downtown NYC. This poet-heart can travel outside of the body with craggy movement (reflected in the poem's formal desires, sometimes looking like an EKG), an ambassador for closeness. Carley Moore writes about things like dating, divorce, motherhood, teaching with vulnerability and humor, creating my favorite kind of book - the absurd life and times of a writer making it another day. "We meet at the Guitar Center and then I buy you a sangria." It's a matter of fact and full of blood pumping heart. -Stacy Szymaszek, author of Famous Hermits, The Pasolini Book, and many others

Bring your heart, your sweet heart, tender and busted, and "step through" into Carley Moore's dazzling new poems. Heart Less gifts readers good intimate company on a city street, in a bar, and on the page-whether one's heart is hurt, on ice, or thawed out. Moore takes us on a wild razor scooter ride through NYC and to a Time portal: to a garbage dump for the past self, or "all horizon, all vista" for the future self. And, for those with a hard heart, hag heart, smarting heart, Moore's poems offer a poem ritual to survive middle age, dating online, and parenting. Carley's own heart, a "waterfall" of worry and desire, charmed and crushed me in these poems, full of word-and-sound play, role play and foreplay. Step through all lovers, misfits, parents, dreamers, and rioters Heart Less is the book for you. -Camille Guthrie, author of DIAMONDSHeart Less instantly places Carley Moore in the pantheon of essential New York School poets. In this long-awaited debut, these 'hard hurting animal' poems lead us to whimsy and weariness, often in the same stanza. Moore transforms motherhood and the human ritual of bodies old and new, pre and post, set inside a list-making candor and process. These are poems that are unafraid to stop in the middle of the street to write a poem, to embrace our dumb hearts, to 'stack feelings, smash them together' and 'crush them until they're gone.' This breakthrough collection demands our attention. -Daniel Nester, author of Harsh Realm: My 1990s, How to Be Inappropriate, God Save My Queen: A Tribute, and many othersThe heart becomes a character in these poems perhaps talking to the heart in O'Hara's pocket walking the same streets of downtown NYC. This poet-heart can travel outside of the body with craggy movement (reflected in the poem's formal desires, sometimes looking like an EKG), an ambassador for closeness. Carley Moore writes about things like dating, divorce, motherhood, teaching with vulnerability and humor, creating my favorite kind of book - the absurd life and times of a writer making it another day. "We meet at the Guitar Center and then I buy you a sangria." It's a matter of fact and full of blood pumping heart. -Stacy Szymaszek, author of Famous Hermits, The Pasolini Book, and many others

During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.Orpheus manages to buy a bicycle just before they sell out across the city. She takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first woman she fell in love with, who also broke her heart. The city is largely closed and on lockdown, devoid of touch, connection, and community. But Orpheus hears of a mysterious underground bar Le Monocle, fashioned after the lesbian club of the same name in 1930s Paris.Will Orpheus be able to find it? Will she ever be allowed to love again? Panpocalypse--first published as an online serial in spring of 2020--follows a lonely, disabled, poly hero in this novel about disease, decay, love, and revolution.