MARK

LAMOUREUX

Mark Lamoureux lives and practices yoga in New Haven Connecticut and teaches English at Housatonic Community College.  He is the author of six volumes of poetry, including this one. His work has appeared in Fence, spoKe, Yes Poetry, Ping Pong, and other publications.

FRIMAIRE

Frimaire is an altar between this realm & the cosmos; a space blurred by the smokey tendrils of offerings & frosted over by the breadth of ghosts. It contains the blood of our ancestors, the bones of our dead, & the wounds of a sacrificial landscape. With poetry that moves through the chaos of the current world with keen senses, Lamoureux creates extraordinary beauty out of the pervasive grotesque.

Only the beautiful things change, an analog to digital signal like the waking from the gauze of sleep to the real room, as it is, a singularity…

Only the beautiful things change, an analog to digital signal like the waking from the gauze of sleep to the real room, as it is, a singularity…