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Frimaire by Mark Lamoureux $16.95

Paperback book, 70 pages

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.

Cover art by Form Terror Growth.

“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…(from Frimaire)”

Hole in the Earth Soy Wax Candle

by Marvel + Moon $16

“Travel from the feral ether in the eye of your mind to the hole in the earth of the endless night.  This candle burns in glitter and flash found in the blade of a fallen king, a god yet arrived, a coin forever. The wide, tilting earth of this aromatic song accompanies Lamoureux’s alchemical lines to wrap around your reading experience like the haunting hands of one who does not exist but lives so presently in dirt at your feet. (Trista from Marvel + Moon)”

Scent Notes: Tilled Earth

Adornments: Dried Greenery & Silver Dagger

Comes in a 4oz black matte tin.

Ace of Wands Broadside Poster $12

Broadside poster of Lamoureux’s poem “Ace of Wands” with design by Tucker Jameson.

Printed on 8.5x11” premium glossy poster paper.

FRIMAIRE Cover Poster $10

Poster of the Frimaire Cover Image by Form Terror Growth. Printed on 8.5x11” premium glossy poster paper.

What others are saying about Lamoureux’s, Frimaire:

“Mark Lamoureux’s poems are made of bones, blood, and burnt offerings. They are phantoms haunting a frosty midnight, unafraid to open wounds and bury lye deep inside you. They are tarot readings for the weary, broken world we are fixed to. They are hope for a future that only reveals itself in shadow. Lyrical, dark, and magnetic, FRIMAIRE is pure alchemy.”

-Kathryn L. Pringle, author of Fault Tree

“Against all the mopey memoirs of the plague, Frimaire invokes a furious and terrifying power with its endlessly rich and thick vocabulary, its long sheets of song and sound.  One of the most agile and various of poets working today, Lamoureux here makes rituals for us that are equal parts suffering and deliverance, purge and root, red and snow, both timeless spirit and "the palette / of matter", "the sallow / cloth of matter", "the deathless mind / of matter".”

-Vivek Narayanan, author of After

“Like Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley or select passages of the Cantos, Frimaire engages the reader first with its unprecedented language and grotesques imagery, at turns violent and surreal, until, as if a remnant, Lamoureux’s narrative briefly haunts the reader until at once the language buries any simplicity of linearity or form to reveal a complicated array and kaleidoscopic vision. In reading this collection, one has the sense of perpetually falling. But like any celestial body, the falling is sustained in orbit, as Lamoureux bends into the fabric of the collection, the invisible mass of his experiences. Dexterous as the poems are on the page, Frimaire is a challenging text, one that exposes the reader to labyrinthian twist of linguistic acrobats and keen, philosophical observations. Frimaire ought to be celebrated for its formal inventions, but, more importantly, for how those inventions become conventions in the able hands of Lamoureux.”

-Brandon Courtney, author of This, Sisyphus

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.