The winner of the 2018 Slope Book Prize, Our Pornography and other disaster songs was chosen by judge Ocean Vuong. Ocean writes, "Our Pornography is a crystalline, dusky and charmingly stubborn American text whose power rests in its desire to complicate linear time into a constellation of epicenters. This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment, and ushers it all, like a river carrying the grit and sparkle, truth and secrets of its undertows, toward a future not yet accounted for because the present still promises discovery. And what discoveries here in these staccato and ruptured lines that, despite everything, find a way to offer the world anew."
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B.J. Soloy lives in Kansas City with Julie "The Hammer" Rouse, Solomon Longfellow, and any combination of unstable familiars that Julie's lured into the apartment. He has a chapbook, Selected Letters, out with New Michigan Press and poems in places like FIELD, Colorado Review, New American Writing, BOAAT, Guernica, Tenderloin, and Forklift, Ohio.