Cassandra de Alba
ISBN: 978-1-949099-07-2
26 pages
"Ugly/Sad is a haunted house but each room is lush with rot, with moss, with pinks and purples, with casual scars, with artifacts of desire from when desire first blooms inside you, before it becomes a mist. Cassandra de Alba’s poetry makes me feel like I can be a bad bitch, too, one that carries a knife in my boot and it’s not a bluff. This poet reminds me that I don’t need to retrace my steps if I keep track of them as I go; If I pick up everything I find on the ground, it’s not just the light that teaches me what something is. It’s the smoke, too."
— Jess Rizkallah, author of the magic my body becomes
Glass Poetry Press
Precision · Vision · Inclusion
Ugly/Sad
Cover by Ike Cataneo
$8.50
Sample poem from Ugly/Sad:
miniatures
in the store of small desires i touch nothing,
afraid to break the delicate plaster hands,
dishes the size of dimes. i won't decorate
another house where i don't fit.
I'm almost ready to risk something
the size of my life & full of blood,
to ride into town with my twin fears:
obsession, the jacket of knives
i look so good in —
desire, a foul animal
gone stupid in the heat.
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© GennaRose Nethercott
Cassandra de Alba is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively. She is a co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge and an associate editor at Pizza Pi Press.
