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Abracadabra, Sunshine
Abracadabra, Sunshine is a series of ever-turning letters written to lovers, friends, and family as a testament to human perseverance and to art-making as a continuous defiance against the often overwhelming complexities and hardships of existence. Darting from the Czech Republic to the Andromeda Galaxy, from the films of Godard to the tales of the Brothers Grimm and the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, these poems foreground our animal need for love and connection against the background of our historical obsession with destruction. By turns dour and deeply hopeful, Booth’s poems extol the communal and healing powers of vulnerability and love.
“Believe me, nothing inside the body is ever quiet:
the heart whispers in its sleep, even
when the lips are closed.”
— from “Love in the Time of Revolution”
“Mysterious, lovely, and written with sensitivity and craftsmanship, Dexter L. Booth’s second book is about what it means to care for one another is a world where “sorrow is often camouflaged by the body.” Booth’s genius is that he is able, through perfectly constructed images of imaginative depth, to relay a pervasive sense of compassion, clarity, and awe.”
— Sandra Simonds, author of Atopia
