Swimming Pool Inside the Sun is a collection of poems and stories that work like sublime spells, validating those suspicions. Moving from mythology to monsoon, from the Knight of Voices to New Year's Eve in Y2K Manhattan, volcanic saturnalia and fern raves, applying SPF 50 and soaring up into the mesosphere where sprites flash scarlet over thunderclouds: Laurie Perez delivers a sweet plunge into impossible spaces where it turns out you are the occasion each star rises to behold.

"DNA, your brazen epic - like Odysseus, never quite escaping war... the gods keep their distance and you, sometimes hopeful, more often beleaguered, battle memes and earworms to keep transcribing sunsets..." -Ars Poetica, SWIMMING POOL INSIDE THE SUN

"Is a comet speeding toward the Sun fatally doomed and tragic? Or could it be the sungrazer is finally arriving - not bounced off by gravity to swing back out into the void, but merging with the flame and fusion it's been hustling toward for eons... What will its icy matter now become?" -Sungrazer, SWIMMING POOL INSIDE THE SUN

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