Neil De La Flor

Neil De la Flor constructs an introspective and linguistically intricate backdrop upon which he and Maureen Seaton engage in a genre-defying conversation of original meta-analytic philosophies: The Boat with a Girl's Heart as collage, the act of keeping Maureen alive on the page, freedom, cyclones, softballs, two queens standing on the tip of a glow stick - this collection becomes both elegy and celebration, a layered palimpsest of queer friendship and poetic wisdom. - Clayre Benzad n, author of Moon as Salted Lemon This surreal elegy, in the form of an imagined dialogue, was written after Maureen Seaton passed in August 2023. Neil de la Flor argues, confronts, and ultimately comes to terms with the death of his friend and collaborator.

The JackLeg Press Poetry SeriesStorming the genders of Americanismo with crossed fingers and sans rules, these poems contradict the text by adding values and filling out applications. Two voices and three voices are threaded to one and the resulting operatic tool digs up the shades of birds, mathematics, riots, and catastrophe. Experience a disturbing disintegration of authorial identity. Experience that identity reshape and reassemble as an intelligent chimera that stares you in the face with as many faces as you can imagine. - Natalija Grgorinic & Ognjen RadenWhen I interviewed these three authors about how they "did" it, that is to say, collaborate, it wasn't like I received three sets of answers. Group mind groped, it was like talking to the tank. - Terese SvobodaCover art: Pamela Callahan, "West Nile Kid." (Courtesy of the artist and Woman Made Gallery, Chicago