Emily Fernandez “Pliny and Other Problems” book on Bamboo Dart Press is out today

Emily Fernandez’ “Pliny and Other Problems” new book is out today. Like messages in bottles washed ashore, the poems in Emily Fernandez’s Pliny and Other Problems feel miraculous. They movingly catalog moments of the speaker’s life as well as the forms of life on the edge of California—mixing vignettes from adolescence and young love to marriage …

Trailer for Emily Fernandez’s “Pliny and Other Problems” book on Bamboo Dart Press premieres

Pliny and Other Problems starts with the problems of ordinary life – a mother’s midlife crisis – and the doings (and undoings) of aging and loss. In the central poems, Pliny the Elder’s life and tome, Natural History, is playfully explored. Pliny mixes Roman mythology with observations of nature, and these poems build little narratives with his …