HARDIN, Maria
Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether

Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether, the hallucinatory debut by artist-poet Maria Hardin, teems with sonic roses and orchid-birthing bodies. A member of Hekseskolen (“The Witch School”), Hardin draws on the twin fascinations of magic and visual art to craft sick sonnets as powerful as spells. Infected, inflamed, and gorging on language, this Anthropo-scenic collection manages to be both Baroque and utterly contemporary, ornate and slangy, a clutch of contagious eco-shockers guaranteed to make you weep. [publishers’ note]

Cover art: Jennifer Mehigan.

Published by Action Books, 2024
Poetry