Sutton, Anthony: Particles of a Stranger Light

Veliz Books, paperback Publication Date: February 3, 2023 Publisher Marketing: Debut poetry collection by Anthony Sutton, PARTICLES OF A STRANGER LIGHT, employs a wide array of approaches and forms to obsessively dissect issues of memory, identity, culture, and history. A memoir. A horror movie. A descent into hell. Anthony Sutton's debut poetry collection, PARTICLES OF A STRANGER LIGHT, employs a wide array of approaches and forms to obsessively dissect issues of memory, identity, culture, and history. Circling around the trauma of a single night, these poems reach into the void to reclaim what has been lost. "Anthony Sutton's debut book is haunted by the old, existential question no one has yet been able to answer satisfactorily: Who or what am I? Rimbaud proclaimed, Je est un autre or I is another. Sutton updates Rimbaud with wry postmodern panache. In one poem, his I is a 'Mixed White/Filipino Poet' who 'Interrogates the Basic Notion of 'Passing' and then Accepts Being Read as a La