Tertulia Logo
Sign upLog In
Cart Icon0
Cart Icon0
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Iguana Iguana, Caylin Capra-Thomas

Iguana Iguana

Caylin Capra-Thomas

Paperback
Regular price$16.95With free membership trial$8.4850% off your first book+ Free shipping
In Stock– Ships within one business day

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

Alive to the beauty and anxiety of new worlds and people, Iguana Iguana imagines a tough and tender soundtrack for tumbleweeds in search of roots. Recursive, deliberate, and as adaptive as their titular lizard, these poems invite us to listen so as to better hear "...the sweet shriek / of those far-off trains you suspect are coming / to claim you. To lay open the hills you haven't seen." Caylin Capra-Thomas writes towards understanding the strangers we meet and knowing the stranger within. In doing so, she maps a blueprint for "lay[ing] into the world / like it's good enough".

Book Details

  • Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Publish Date: Jul 26th, 2022
  • Pages: 92
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.40in - 7.20in - 0.40in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9781646051779
  • Categories: • American - General• Women Authors

About the Author

Caylin Capra-Thomas's other works include the chapbooks Inside My Electric City (YesYes Books) and The Marilyn Letters (dancing girl press). Her poems have appeared in journals including New England Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many others. The 2018-2020 poet-in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy, she now lives in Columbia, Missouri, where she is a PhD student in English and creative writing.

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Deep Vellum
Deep Vellum
@DeepVellum
2 years

Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Visit our offices inside @deepvellumbooks

"This book is funny and recursive and, perhaps most of all, it’s comforting—it’s a book about finding and knowing home wherever (and whoever) you are." Check out IGUANA IGUANA author @CaylinCT on @mtpublicradio's @WriteQuestion with @wintered_legs: https://t.co/x5ElCwlPXK

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Poetry Society
Poetry Society
@Poetry_Society
2 years

Poetry, I too, like it | The nation's oldest poetry non-profit.

Read “Lightning Suspected in Death of Horses" by Caylin Capra-Thomas (@CaylinCT) from her new book Iguana Iguana out now from @DeepVellum. https://t.co/xgYWa1xmbc

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers
@poetswritersinc
2 years

Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers.

“The thing you’re doing to try to find the book—searching, moving, reinventing yourself every year—is the book.” @caylinCT’s poetry collection, Iguana Iguana, is out now from @DeepVellum. In today’s #TenQuestions she discusses the book’s development: http://at.pw.org/10Q4CapraThomas https://t.co/tnnZgpxdsJ

twitter.com
Show more

Praise for this book

"Iguana Iguana. What a glorious ride. These wild and wise poems travel so many places, like dreams built from an ordinary life, an ordinary inner madness, and they contain so much humor and humanity, so much muchness and toughness and tenderness and forgiveness. Of everything and everyone. Jim and Sylvester and William, no-see-ums and mothers, good and bad boyfriends, girlfriends, stray cats and dead birds, dancing pecs and death. Damn, I'm impressed." -Dorianne Laux


"This is the kind of book, rare indeed, that makes me fall in love with the 'I' all over again. The lyric 'I, ' witness of the land and what dwells upon it: 'The river / is high again and so are the teenagers.' Oracle, as well, of interior spaces, and the correspondences that arise between inner and outer: 'the oranges with hard little navels, the navels identical / to mine.' The 'I' that examines feeling and memory and, in that examination, ignites imagination. Iguana Iguana is composed of many slippery selves--the Florida self, Montana self, daughter, lover, kid, adult, the solitude junkie, the working class self, and the kitchen self, 'Alive before that moment, alive through the dishes...' All the selves are united in their lack of cloying hopefulness and easy outs, and their awareness of the mortal body, which is also the source of the book's comedy: 'If death is the body's failure, it is also its final fuck you.' Caylin Capra-Thomas is a brilliant mystic of the real." --Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets

What people are saying

See more