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BOOK LAUNCH PARTY DETAILS
TIME: 6 PM
DATE: SEPTEMBER 15TH
PLACE: UNION STREET SOCIAL
WHAT TO EXPECT: READING, LIVE MUSIC, Q&A, GIVEAWAYS, BOOK SIGNING
FUN FACT: FIVE COVERS TO CHOOSE FROM!
Pay attention: Linzi Garcia knows the recipe for a good poem—honesty, longing, and a bit of blood. In Cravings, Garcia boldly embraces the messiness of life, love, and growing older, day by day. The characters in Garcia’s poems are all flawed, and the better for it. They swallow their sins, break bread together, and toast to creation. Some of these poems are as sweet and warm as fresh-baked cookies at 2 a.m., while others turn up the heat. But never enough to burn you. Just enough to leave you hungry for more.
What readers are saying:
Cravings is a book of many hungers—of the foods desired at 2:00 a.m., of the places that are rich with memories, of the loves that are a holiday and of the loves that last and become a home. Linzi is talented at distilling so many moments to their most intimate details. She witnesses and listens at intersections, in bars, to police scanners and offers tender snapshots of moments that might otherwise have been overlooked. The world asks us to pay attention and these poems say yes.
—Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2023-26), Love Prodigal
Linzi Garcia writes with more guts than the next 100 poets you will read. She is fearless in putting reality on a page. Cravings is a collection of bone-saw poetry with a New Orleans chaser. The pain and the pretty are poured in equal measure. Men will feel the sweetness and the sting, family will feel love, readers will be enthralled, and poets will feel admiration and a shot of jealousy. The beauty is in the brutality. Her poems have us begging for a second helping of both soothing and savagery. So, dig in, take a bite, have another slice, and if there happens to be a razor blade within . . . what’s a few stitches, besides a good story?
—Todd Cirillo, Disposable Darlings
Cravings offers readers a triumphant and vivid glimpse into the shifting and shimmering layers of desire, as experienced by Garcia’s authentically well-crafted poet speaker. The voice is consistent, honest, earthy, and real. At her core, she is a woman who wants to experience each delicious threshold of life—artisthood, joy, loss, community, motherhood, and sensuality all echo like howls through a hallway here, showing us that cravings exist all around us—on the tongue, across the page, and most importantly, upon the delicate tapestries of our souls.
—Skye Jackson, Libre
No one since Diane di Prima has brought such Beat energy to a page—and as much flair. Linzi’s poetry is the blue-white butane flame, the peacock’s plume, the guillotine blade. She does not look away from the eye of the flame. She looks in. What she sees she writes: with the reporter’s eye, the lover’s heart, the saxman’s ear, the Beat’s rugged walking shoes.
—Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-19), More Than Words
What readers are saying:
Cravings is a book of many hungers—of the foods desired at 2:00 a.m., of the places that are rich with memories, of the loves that are a holiday and of the loves that last and become a home. Linzi is talented at distilling so many moments to their most intimate details. She witnesses and listens at intersections, in bars, to police scanners and offers tender snapshots of moments that might otherwise have been overlooked. The world asks us to pay attention and these poems say yes.
—Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2023-26), Love Prodigal
Linzi Garcia writes with more guts than the next 100 poets you will read. She is fearless in putting reality on a page. Cravings is a collection of bone-saw poetry with a New Orleans chaser. The pain and the pretty are poured in equal measure. Men will feel the sweetness and the sting, family will feel love, readers will be enthralled, and poets will feel admiration and a shot of jealousy. The beauty is in the brutality. Her poems have us begging for a second helping of both soothing and savagery. So, dig in, take a bite, have another slice, and if there happens to be a razor blade within . . . what’s a few stitches, besides a good story?
—Todd Cirillo, Disposable Darlings
Cravings offers readers a triumphant and vivid glimpse into the shifting and shimmering layers of desire, as experienced by Garcia’s authentically well-crafted poet speaker. The voice is consistent, honest, earthy, and real. At her core, she is a woman who wants to experience each delicious threshold of life—artisthood, joy, loss, community, motherhood, and sensuality all echo like howls through a hallway here, showing us that cravings exist all around us—on the tongue, across the page, and most importantly, upon the delicate tapestries of our souls.
—Skye Jackson, Libre
No one since Diane di Prima has brought such Beat energy to a page—and as much flair. Linzi’s poetry is the blue-white butane flame, the peacock’s plume, the guillotine blade. She does not look away from the eye of the flame. She looks in. What she sees she writes: with the reporter’s eye, the lover’s heart, the saxman’s ear, the Beat’s rugged walking shoes.
—Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-19), More Than Words
