Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel

Fast-paced, imaginative, weird, interesting, and fresh, Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel is filled with dreams but delivers real emotion. This book of prose poems examines the contrast between external/surface self and reality, building its own world through irrealism. The poems often read as allegory, with a fair amount of absurdity. The book’s central questioning circles what we can know about someone else.

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