FEEL HAPPIER IN NINE SECONDS
Coach House Books, 2017.
“Feel Happier in Nine Seconds is immediately recognizable as great literature.” — Jury citation, A.M. Klein Prize.
“Besner's imagination doesn't appear to have an upper or outer limit – Reading her poems is a bad trip and a transformational experience.” —Ken Babstock
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THE ID KID
Véhicule Press, 2011.
“Besner is one of the funniest poets writing in this country.” – National Post
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PLACES TO READ MY POETRY
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE “Your Happy Place May Be in Need of an Undersea Princess”
THE BOSTON REVIEW “Feel Happier in Nine Seconds”
THE AWL “Our Baby” “The Labour of Being Studied in a Free-Love Economy”
THE WALRUS “Bells, Liberty, Undue Exultation”
MAGNETIC VARIATIONS ON ONE AND SIX
This is a sequence from my second book, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds. It’s based on a study using Fisher Price alphabet magnets to investigate learned synaesthesia. I also wrote about the study for Hazlitt. You can read an interview I did on this project with The Montreal Review of Books.
REVIEWS—FEEL HAPPIER IN NINE SECONDS
REVIEWS—THE ID KID