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Fuel

Rosie Stockton

The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.

Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California's Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love's painful retraction, Stockton's poems articulate the blurry modes of extraction, fantasy, loss, gender, and labor as they interact and overlap in the shadow of environmental and personal collapse. Between gas station gifts, Venmo requests, and nocturnal love letters, Fuel unravels the self and violent systems of domination, longing for a togetherness that transcends its own ending.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Nightboat Books
  • Publish Date: May 6th, 2025
  • Pages: 88
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.80in - 5.90in - 0.50in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9781643622743
  • Categories: LGBTQ+Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica

About the Author

Rosie Stockton is a poet based in Los Angeles. Their first book, Permanent Volta, is the recipient of the 2019 Sawtooth Prize, and was published by Nightboat Books in 2021. Their poems have been published by Publication Studio, VOLT, Jubilat, Apogee, Mask Magazine, and WONDER. They hold an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and are currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA.

Praise for this book

"A lush collection of poetry about the possibilities of love outside capitalism, and love as a way to resist its abuses. The poems are exceedingly relevant to our uneasy time: about hating work and being broke, but also about being in love, and needing sex, luxury, and care."

--Alexis Okeowo, Vogue

"These poems rise, softly recede and then spill forth--like a body of water, like a 'spilt glass of wine', like desire itself. In this collection, an addicting world of eroticism and fantasy is carefully constructed, while the speaker remains firmly rooted in the reality of materiality, grasping with its bleakness, while finding escape and beauty wherever is possible. Inherently radical, these delicate poems will shatter you in the most pleasurable way."


--Rachel Rabbit White


"Brainy, bratty, witty, libidinal, vulnerable, this book is a 'bad sub, ' a queer comrade you can trust to show up on the front lines of resistance."


--Brian Teare, in praise of Permanent Volta