Fugue with Bedbug - by Anne-Marie Turza (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The much-anticipated second collection from the author of The Quiet.

Anne-Marie Turza's Fugue With Bedbug is part musical reference, part portraiture, a series of uncanny poems attending to time and mortality, an eccentric essay, and a musical score. Using the fugue form as a quiet compositional strategy, Turza argues that the mission: "in afterthought, was Jell-O, a salad of delicate intent and shimmy ..."

Review Quotes

"Fugue With Bedbug is a puzzle worth encountering. Nonhuman subjects perform absurd delights, whimsical images drive each stanza, and footnotes contain fact and riddle alike." -- The Miramichi Reader

"[Fugue with Bedbug is] passage into the unknown in which both sound and echo form its imagery. The key, as the reader, is to let the melody play." -- ARC Poetry

"Anne-Marie Turza's second collection ... is a straight up weird book. But you will delight in its weirdness. Surreal at its core, the collection uses its musicality to ease its reader into the peculiar and to locate similar strangeness in our world ... The poems in Fugue With Bedbug continually take on unexpected and lovely new forms. They are truly refreshing" -- Quill and Quire

"Kinetic collection ... Turza keeps us on the point of absurdity to bring us into a genuine spirit of inquiry." -- Merion West Magazine

"Anne-Marie Turza's Fugue with Bedbug is a puzzle worth encountering. Nonhuman subjects of the poems perform absurd delights, whimsical images drive each stanza, and footnotes contain fact and riddle alike. ... Those who enjoy play with language and poetics will greatly appreciate Turza's Fugue." -- The Miramichi Reader

"Surreal at its core, [Fugue with Bedbug] uses its musicality to ease its reader into the peculiar and to locate similar strangeness in our world. The poems ... are truly refreshing." -- Quill and Quire