Wallace, Valerie 2015
The naked sound of the body sounds
Like a trumpet. I announce a new world
In which your madness and my madness
At the point of a needle, is my love, spinning.
– Valerie Wallace, “Silhouette for the 21st Century”
Read this interview with Valerie Wallace from the Chicago Review of Books:
Valerie Wallace Explores the Life and Work of Alexander McQueen
A conversation with the debut poet behind ‘House of McQueen.’
Beauty is an accusation. Nature
Herself has turned metaphysical.
Skull bears witness, proper
& perfect. Viper to socket, startles
me into alertness.
– Valerie Wallace, “Small Seams”
Watch Valerie Wallace read her poetry:
