PARADISE HD

Poetry. Spiral Editions, 2024. Paperback, 20 pages. 11"x4.25"x0.25"

From the press: "I'm a type of paper." Paradise HD meanders down the empty eternal beach that we all know, snaking in and out of the amoebic and alternately lithic borders of upright lived experience. A nervous, raw beauty ekes out in the pressure applied between the space the world the camera gives form to and its fleshy, unhinged reality. "a strobing equation / translates silver glow / into seconds," meanwhile—we are caught stroking and admiring the wreckage of the always immediate present.

Isabel Boutiette lives in South Bend, Indiana where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame and hosts a creative writing club for incarcerated students at Westville Correctional Facility.