Antonio Addessi is a poet and writer living in New York City. He received his BA in English from the University of Maine(‘15) and his MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from Columbia University(‘20). His poems “old ironsides” and “fish and the creel” were first published digitally by Wrath-Bearing Tree.

As the book’s title suggests, we, as readers, converse with Addessi’s reveries: its dream geography; its telescoping in and out of small moments that simultaneously stamp their significance on the inside of our skulls and make us relitigate the meaning of memories—especially those of a bygone relationship; its specificity of details like cello-lined walls, a taxidermied artic fox, or scorched yams, which anchor us from traversing into the ethereal, or worse, the generic. And whether or not we are witnessing the unfurling of Addessi’s own past love(s), we are privy to an unflinching intimacy deftly rendered by his words. — Daniel W.K. Lee, Anatomy of Want