New Pornographies: A Backward Path to Heaven

(Poetry Collection.) A writer is never more nude than in poetry. Announcing louder, lewder, truer honesty, an author plots his way out.

Ruder than ever. Shouts about getting it as good as he gives it. Over-comes overcoming doubt. Deceives, descends. Confesses, repents. Accepts everything, regrets nothing. Inks with tears what amuses with his bruises. Re-emerges, fiend-to-phœnix.

Drafting an escape from having to either face or explain why he does what he does when racing against pain, here he pens himself, scrawls across bared chests heavy breaths of a huskily-whispered, pillow-talked plan: three silver-tongued laps around lust’s dusky, neon-lit track mark circles cast around exes.

Manifests as literature distancing pasts, exorcistic verse to out(b)last opposing sentiments as he dashes-off—in dextrous lyrics—why he now has the upper-hand in this fight of his, against the need to hide beneath the precept of just-having-a-good-time. That, really, he is fine. That he actually has always needed to be seen, to captivate, to be freed. To feed an ache. To seed. To satiate.

Confessional, erotic, gothic, magic, necromantic, explicit, transgressive, this noir-memoir through which sweats blood and tears is at once part gutter, interrogation room, torture chamber, brothel hall, and corridor through a hell of it’s artist’s own choosing.

Rich with lush imagery and vivid rhythm, a triplicity of sequences reaches deep to emerge reverberating revelations of a heart’s worth when weighed against its hurts.

Feather-lit as if written in the midst of flickering, candle-lighted introspection, then tapped into a burner phone with a bad connection, this concoction—with its cinematic text—rivets you closer to him than ever before. Veneers over your projections and expectations with his own intentions: ejaculated words Borden’s bawdiness works hard toward an unheard origin’s long unanswered call. Uncensored and orgiastic, in yet another bombastic volume of transgressive song.