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MILLENNIAL by Kelly Egan $13.95

Paperback book, 46 pages

MILLENNIAL is an expanding portal of non-linear time; through both dream & waking states & the archetypes that hold great resonance. This poem carries memories both learnt & experienced through the kaleidoscopic lens of the speaker, until each layer of time reveals itself to us in the present. Egan questions the very things in the contemporary world, natural & otherwise, through location as experience & time through memory & language—the very mycelium of conceptualization. Traveling the terrestrial realm through a multi-dimensional state allows the poem to evoke a grounding in reality, through the unknown of ancestors & spirit. The parallels of existence in both history & the present is deeply rooted in the blood here conjured.

Cover design by Sam Genovese

“A thin place is not ruled by linear time, though it is not altogether unruly. It has something to communicate. (from MILLENNIAL)”

Shimmering Wishes Soy Wax Candle

by Marvel + Moon $16

“Embedded in these grains of sand, the spirit of Gonzo—Egan’s millennial Hunter S. Thompson—barreling through the desert in a dusty old Cadillac while hopped up on caffeine and riding mellow on that CBD. This scent, with its deep, restorative aromatic hemp and rattling coffee bean, drives you through into the highs and lows of shimmering wishes as little gods pirouette cerebral in the cortex of language. There is no direction to follow, there is only everywhere you have ever wanted to go. Are you ready?  (Trista from Marvel + Moon)”

Scent Notes: Fresh Brewed Coffee. Hemp. Vetiver. Patchouli. Lime. Cinnamon. Warm Cream.  

Adornments: Shimmering Silver Foil Dreams & Desert Sand  

“A hill” Broadside Poster $12

Designed by Sam Genovese with an excerpt of Kelly Egan’s, MILLENNIAL.

Design printed on 8.5x11” matte poster. Includes cardboard backing & cellophane wrap for safe shipping & displaying.

What others are saying about Egan’s, MILLENNIAL:

“An archetypal imagination knows a shiny green balloon tumbling on the shoulder is a signal in the noise: “Have you noticed how all errands are trysts with gods,” Kelly Egan asks in Millennial.  Be notified, and enjoy these dispatches for future robot news, a “walk to the edge of the map,” their intimate wild thought.”

— Mary Cisper, Dark Tussock Moth

"I publish this poem to your ear,” says the voice in this astounding debut volume. This single poem moves by the logic of association, through the world experienced, as if for the first time again and again, with a kind of stunned gratitude: “A heroic dose of morning/ Asleep on the shores of the Salton Sea/ I thanked the sea and left.” This poet is on a great journey, and her unit of measure is the line, which she has mastered. The logic of these poems is utterly original, and totally convincing: "I am not married but look I have this pile of quaint pink luggage…” I loved reading this book, and will treasure it as the first of many volumes sure to be written by this emerging star.”

— Matthew Zapruder, Father’s Day and Story of a Poem

"In Millennial, Kelly Egan plays with time in a refreshing, flexible way that highlights language and location as places where memories are stored. By questioning the linear nature of time, these poems invite the reader into a world where ancestors are always present, and where the past and future are permitted to be events that unfold in the present." 

— Caroline O’Connor Thomas, unusual light source

KELLY EGAN

Kelly Egan was born on August 7th, 1985. She grew up in the suburbs of Central New Jersey and now lives in California’s Bay Area where she has no kin, many kindreds, and no idea how to root in this place. She has an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of CA and is the author of the poetry chapbook A Series of Septembers. Find her at kellyjeanegan.com.