Abstract:
Porchless Staircase is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: consumerism, death, sexuality, alcoholism, religion, writing, family, and, most frequently, isolation. At times toying with notions of the sublime and surrealism, the confessional and the imagistic, these poems vary in form, process, and style, but are loosely strung together through their attempt to put to words the unnamable emotions born out of what is both beautiful and terrible. The poems that comprise Porchless Staircase unapologetically refuse to tidy what is difficult; rather they thrive in their inability to compose themselves.
