FINALIST for the 2022 California Book Awards in Poetry
FINALIST for the 2022 Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
PRAISE
“A paean to the disruptive power of queer desire, Rosie Stockton’s rhapsodic debut, Permanent Volta, embodies a poetics of the swerve, of switch life beyond butch and femme, where we inhabit, kaleidoscopically, the pleasure-pains of Eros’s excesses. We are hailed, are beckoned by, Stockton’s visionary imperatives: ‘it’s time / for love / in the time / of dollar store cutlery.’ We torque to find a way to love under late-capitalism, awash in the luxurious bliss of Permanent Volta, with Stockton as our humble guide.” – Jackie Wang
“Brainy, bratty, witty, libidinal, vulnerable, this book is a ‘bad sub,’ a queer comrade you can trust to show up on the front lines of resistance.” – Brian Teare
“A fresh take on contemporary subjectivity and gender (‘deep in my reliquary it rots like gender’), Permanent Volta is necessary reading for those of us who aim to re-invent the future.” – Dawn Lundy Martin
“These poems rise, softly recede and then spill forth—like a body of water, like a ‘spilt glass of wine’, like desire itself. In this collection, an addicting world of eroticism and fantasy is carefully constructed, while the speaker remains firmly rooted in the reality of materiality, grasping with its bleakness, while finding escape and beauty wherever is possible. Inherently radical, these delicate poems will shatter you in the most pleasurable way.” – Rachel Rabbit White
REVIEWS
Starred Review in The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books, by Megan Fernandes
Review on Rob McLennan’s Blog, by Rob McLennan
Review in Logos Journal, by Bill Nevins
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Esmé Hogeveen in BOMB Magazine, October 2021
Interview with David Brazil in Mayday Magazine, October 2021
Interview with Ivanna Baranova in Full Stop, August 2021
Interview with Mallika Singh in The Poetry Project Newsletter #265, Summer 2021
Interview with Ben Fama in The Believer, May 2021
Interview with Alexis Okeowo in Vogue, May 2021
EXCERPTS
Poetry Society of America | “Rosie Stockton on ‘Permanent Volta, II”
Berkeley Poetry Review | “Bad Attachment”, “It Makes Me Thirsty,” and “More Harmful Than Poetry”
HOUSE PARTY 15, The Poetry Project | 3 Poems
Jubilat | “No Means” & “Before the Sentence Begins”
Dirt Child Vol. 2 | 2 poems from Permanent Volta