Word Problems

Word Problems is the second book of poems from Christopher Phelps. Lyric, experimental, and prose poems ravel like strands of a trefoil knot. Philosophical and etymological investigations; personal experiences and historical questions tongue-tie and -untie one another, unfinishing each other's sentences and insistences, refrains and reframings. Searching the intimacies of divinity, personhood, and queer liberation, these poems are intrepid, heady, hearty explorations of how sources of meaning are found and find themselves anew.