Description:
The winner of the 2018 Slope Book Prize, Our Pornography and other disaster songs was chosen by judge Ocean Vuong. Ocean writes, "Our Pornography is a crystalline, dusky and charmingly stubborn American text whose power rests in its desire to complicate linear time into a constellation of epicenters."
Brief description:
BJ Soloy lives in Kansas City with Julie "The Hammer" Rouse, Solomon Longfellow, and any combination of unstable familiars that Julie's lured into the apartment. He has a chapbook, Selected Letters, out with New Michigan Press and poems in places like FIELD, Colorado Review, New American Writing, BOAAT, Guernica, Tenderloin, and Forklift, Ohio.