"Anthony Sutton's debut book is haunted by the old, existential question no one has yet been able to answer satisfactorily: Who or what am I? Rimbaud proclaimed, Je est un autre or I is another. Sutton updates Rimbaud with wry postmodern panache. In one poem, his I is a 'Mixed White/Filipino Poet' who 'Interrogates the Basic Notion of 'Passing' and then Accepts Being Read as a Latinx Woman.' In others, he is the zombie who has lost his identity after being 'roofied.' He is also the person who knows 'if I had a god to pray to // it would be the light fixture / in the jail cell I spent most / of a day in.' All I know is that I want to keep reading and rereading these lovely, strange, wise, and wise-cracking selves that Sutton invents for himself in Particles of a Stranger Light. This virtuoso book passes like a Category 5 hurricane through our conscious-ness and, if you let it, will rearrange who you are." --Donald Platt, author of Swansdown
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