Includes interrelated poems that explores how to represent the reality of change and loss. This title pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection - and the hope of intimacy.
"You know you can't right the disaster, or even write the disaster, but now you know, in reading Dark Archive, that you can ride the evanescence that comes before and after. Mullen's shapes shift, disappear like the living but remain like lives, as sharp curved traces, jarred angles of incidence/vantage/glance. See how veer, wander, being dragged, suffering restructuring, turn into new solids, solidarities of moving, hard-edged lyric social work in solitude, for the crowd, against loneliness, which is really, really cool."
-Fred Moten, author of Hughson's Tavern
Praise for Subject:
"Compelling."
Julie Reid, Poetry Project Newsletter
"Subject limns the rough and ragged borders of identity. It needles though traditional ideas of what occurs within self and outside of (without) self."
Geoffrey Goodwin, Spider Words Magazine
Praise for After I Was Dead:
"A powerful reconstruction of self?. Wildly versatile formally, restlessly roving from verse to prose to epistle and back. Taken collectively it reads as resistance of structures."
Sam White, Boston Review
The poems in After I Was Dead expose language where it is most vulnerable, most likely to fail: in the abstract diction of human speech. The voice feels actual, audible."
Kim Fortier, Rain Taxi
"Despite the reassurances of our good looks with which lesser poets woo us, we are not so dead that we do not respond with a kind of happiness to this unexpected demonstration that truth really is beauty."
Christopher Davis, The Journal
"A strong collection of poetry."
