Hello there.
My debut poetry collection Perpetual Motion Machines is out now from I. Giraffe Press.
Praise for Perpetual Motion Machines:
“In this stunning collection, the poet explores the beautiful wreckage of our world, where the self and the soul are cog and gear in the eternal machine pushing us ever forward, wrenching us ever back... At the center of it all is a tender love for the beauty found amidst the ruins, wrought in language full of anguish, urgency, and surprise. Perpetual Motion Machines is not merely a collection that will leave you thinking and feeling in new ways, it is a collection of importance and urgency—a seed that germinates in fire.”
— Marci Nelligan, author of The Ghost Manada and Infinite Variations
“Perpetual Motion Machines ‘stitches together dislocated spaces’—hallucinations and dreams, jazz and war, order and entropy—illuminating for us the fragile and ‘warped stability’ in which we make our human lives. Eliot White is the ‘Starriest of Messengers’. His poems weave invisible kingdoms, spin galactic paradoxes, and elevate the prosaic elements of our lives, as they continue to move in us long after we've read them.”
—Edgar Silex, author of Acts of Love and Through All the Displacements
“The poems in ‘Perpetual Motion Machines’ are at once nostalgic and apocalyptic, hopeful and hallucinatory, scientific and starry-eyed. White is obviously a poet dedicated to his craft. He uses subtle inner rhymes and complex rhythms. And he employs a variety of poetic forms to showcase a dazzling set of novel images juxtaposed with high-minded ideas splashing up against humor, snippets of memory and tidbits of information. White obviously delights in paradoxes and uses them to show a universe in flux and one that’s, to borrow a Talking Heads’ line, the same as it ever was.”
—Mike Andrelczyk, LNP/LancasterOnline