BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE

New full length collection out on Broadstone Books
Also available through SPD

Praise for BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE

Within billy cancel’s kinetic snarl lurks dystopian rebellion to counter the daily shiv into gothic viscera — ‘i was the wrong riff faced with the punch / line inadvertently flipped.’ These poems dare agitate your bod-swap for bop-lick, each single-page-powerhouse a realm onto itself — each gaze, a brilliantly restrained cataclysm. BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE is ‘shacked up with a zigzag’ gigged out as a dingus-journal to smash through the positive-negative real space of language as cryptic-sayer, sooth-truther, ontologic wormhole — training us to do what a radical poetics is best at, to listen for secret passcodes gargled out of society’s backwash. In the seer’s role, cancel presents the cinematic sprawl of our burnt alignments with a glorious ear for language — untethering the incarcerated brain, page by page, as its own journey — ‘if you want this NICHE it’s yours.’” — Edwin Torres author of Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing