Once Upon a Cicada Moon

Anneysa Gaille

Once Upon a Cicada Moon is an alchemical mix of folklore, ballad, and long form poem. Anneysa Gaille's debut is a channeled feminist tale that invents new ways to score voice on the page, full of lacy gaps to let in breath, to breathe in the bayou.

'With her poetry, Anneysa lassoes the moon and brings it down to dance amongst the bluebonnets and bayous of Texas.” —Anne Waldman   "In this exhilarating poem, words seem to slide across the page, and what we find as we move through it are the traces of a powerful and mysterious desire. Anneysa Gaille is an heir to the expansive American long poem as it comes down from Walt Whitman, C.D. Wright, and Alice Notley.' - Orlando Reade