METAMOURPHOSIS by Alison Lubar

About the book: METAMOURPHOSIS contemplates the transformative power of particularly queer, sapphic love, in all of its expressions: through grief, new relationship energy, and non-linear healing. The section titles are portmanteaus, playing on both the idea of evolution, and of the illusion of a binary. And while these smaller divisions are worlds in themselves, their cohesive unfolding implies the interconnectedness of all facets, stages, and nuances of love.

About the author: Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices to young people. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart & BotN, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022), queer feast (Bottlecap Press, 2022), sweet euphemism (CLASH!, 2023), and It Skips a Generation (Stanchion, 2023). Find out more at alisonlubar.com or on Twitter @theoriginalison.

Praise for METAMOURPHOSIS

"A portmanteau. A pun. A poem. With humor. With love. With pathos. With joy. With purpose. With whimsy. With pleasure. Alison Lubar’s METAMOURPHOSIS is all of this and more. Read it and be delighted." —Julie R. Enszer, author of THE PINKO COMMIE DYKE, editor and publisher of Sinister Wisdom

"The love songs of METAMOURPHOSIS croon out to 'all heavenly bodies,' a journey of 'alchemical romance,' 'ablaze with our waking.' On these pages, desire germinates, hybridizes and effloresces. How do we love when our days are numbered, our relationships maligned unjustly, our planet in a state of chaos? The poems answer by celebrating queer love and magic– radiant with the ever-blooming natural world, shot through with devotion and care, and sparkling like the cosmos. And too, this luscious book touches loss, because the poet knows 'time is/ the only luxury,' one we cannot take for granted. Lubar’s wise, carefully wrought poems chronicle the work of living urgently, loving abundantly, and sharing the bounty. My heart is full with the charm, energy, and vitality of their voice." —Mónica Gomery, winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, Sappho Prize for Women Poets and the Minola Review Poetry Contest, and author of Might Kindred, winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry

"Alison Lubar’s METAMOURPHOSIS is a song to love lost and found. It is a song to the most delicious memories, and it is a song to wild queer joy. Lubar writes, 'Now I write to keep the light in,' and the light that shines through this book will brighten the reader long after they finish the very last poem. METAMOURPHOSIS is a book you’ll want to devour again and again." —Nicole Tallman, Poetry Ambassador for Miami and Author of FERSACE: POEMS

"With lush euphony, METAMOURPHOSIS digs into the earth of the saphhic. Lubar spins heady moments of yearning to fall into willingly, like grief-bound lemming to impending cliff. This is poetry that is all claws under silk gloves in smoke-drenched, liminal-tense space, spells that leave you in the apex of the threat-induced gasp." —Emily Perkovich, Querencia Press EIC & author of baby, sweetheart, honey