Heliotropes by Nicholas Leaskou

Now available! The long-awaited chapbook debut from Nicholas Leaskou, long-form book reviewer, (see Jacket2), former Poet as Radio co-host, and poet.

He is a poet, editor, and jeweler from San Francisco. His poems and reviews have appeared in Jacket2, Dusie, Vallum, Switchback, Midway, Boog City, and 14 Hills: The SFSU Review. After receiving his MFA from the University of San Francisco in 2009, he coproduced/hosted Poet as Radio, an online poetry show airing live weekly at SF Community Radio from 2011–2014. To liberate himself from words — as needed — he composes artisan jewelry.

Orders

US & Canada $8.00 USD International $12.00 USD

Excerpt:

Upper / Lower

Bach’s organ

On the Headlands

Through wet

Glass

In the sky

A thousand branches

Of cypress

Listen in

Corwin St. Garden

A salamander

Stares at his

Rare shadow

On my thumb

Sliced by yucca

Earfuls of

Satie’s Vexations

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