Close Your Eyes When You Look At Me by Lauren Pope Nancy Gaffield interspersed with passages from the

interspersed with passages from the Book of Revelations

move between the surreal artscapes of the American South West

Or do imaginers merely exile themselves from the world

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Close Your Eyes When You Look At Me by Lauren Pope Nancy Gaffield interspersed with passages from theLauren Popes Close your Eyes when you Look at me is a blinding pamphlet which opens: [i]n the unforgiving light of the bread aisle. The majority of the poems were written in the short space of a week, lending compression and immediacy to Popes delightful imagery and emotional intimacy. Close your Eyes is a remarkable pamphlet whose author has verve and vivacity to describe sound by what it is not silence. ABOUT the author: Lauren Pope is a 2019