The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown finding the tension between what

finding the tension between what the reality would have been and how such a voice would sound in today’s world

The poems celebrate illicit desire and the male body’s vulnerability

for which he reached back to the expressionist era and also to the post-war Viennese avant-garde

‘Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive’ – John Berger

the adorable other is not just an imagined future child

The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown finding the tension between whatIn The Persimmon is an Event Mike Corrao explores the yet to be created field of Ovidian Dynamics (a study of the body's metamorphic potentials) as the reader subject undergoes a series of unwieldy changes. These aphoristic poems are malleable segments, unfolding, like the Persimmon, from seed to tree. ABOUT Mike Corrao: Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11: 11 Press), Under Reef (Onomatopee), and Smut Maker (Inside the