Psychic Privates by Kim Vodicka $18

Paperback, 155 pages

Psychic Privates is a bold & honest tone on feminism & sexuality in poetry, making room at the center of the stage for the “degenerates” of poetry, looking deep into the crystal balls of sexual transcendence, while mourning a loss of girlhood & impressionable innocence.

Cover art by Jessica Miller.

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What others are saying about Vodicka’s Psychic Privates:

“Vodicka’s Psychic Privates is a patchwork of soundbites both lovelorn and predacious, spreading its fishnet-clad legs around the entire upturned pelvis of modernity from Renaissance to millennium. With its signature tongue-in-cheek punning and deft attention to sound-based polysemy, Vodicka’s style is simultaneously singular and symptomatic of a larger ‘degenerational’ impulse toward theatrical (read: burlesque) satire of poetry’s most perennial obsessions—love, sex, nature (that messy murderess), the epistle, the sublime—all in the balls-out apocalyptic register of a prophet-goblin whose negative capability engulfs the whole spectrum from zealot to skeptic, fuck boy to coy mistress, curse words to King’s English—‘a horrifying morass’ wherein ‘the twain’ indeed meet.”
–Dylan Krieger, author of Giving Godhead & dreamland trash

“Through her nihislips, Vodicka’s Psychic Privates offers a view of love bereft of loss. Fuckwise and hearty, her queenly poetry gives the reader that mourning beer buzz most craved.”
–Russell Bennetts, editor of Berfrois

"A 21st century Mae West meeting your gaze unblinking with honesty, savagery and both unapologetic need and bold censure."
–Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls & Crisis Boy

“The first time I heard Vodicka read from this book, I threw my panties on stage. No other offering seemed adequate and also maybe they were too wet to keep on. Ever since, her sin-tracks have been running afuck in my unconscious. Reading this book is like playing with a sadistic vibrator. Her puns twist and pinch noun phrases until they purple, hint at shadow, and under to the expected. Each brutal shift in tone, a truthy bitchslap you didn't see coming. But you really should have. Enter her ‘reverse bukkake boutique’ and let this book backwash all over your tonsils. The taste lingers.  And you'll want it to.”

–Stina French, author of Hope You Like Dick & founder of Sister Rainbow Scream

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KIM VODICKA

Kim Vodicka is the spokesbitch of a degeneration and author of four full-length poetry collections—most recently, Dear Ted (Really Serious Literature, 2022) and The Elvis Machine (CLASH Books, 2020). She also writes erotica and her short story, A Dirty Story as You Like It, was published in 2021 as part of the Pocket Erotica Series by New Urge Editions. She is the creator of several experimental chapbooks, including a poetic comic book, a 7” vinyl EP of sound poems, and an illustrated book of poetry. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of artist grants from PEN America, Poets & Writers, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Authors League Fund. For the past decade, she has toured the nation performing spoken word with musical accompaniment in venues both illustrious and disreputable, including the legendary Sun Studio. She recently co-founded Downing Hollow Farm Writing and Ritual Retreats, which combines creative writing and magickal working in beautiful, pastoral Olivehill, TN. Originally from South Louisiana, she lives in Memphis, TN with her beloved cat, Lula. Cruise her at kimvodicka.com.