Points of Return by Mike Lala
Winner of the 2021 Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest. Edition of 100. Printed + assembled in Northampton, MA. $15.
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Walked a hallway of the constant shifting commons
someone called the present the future
as they glided past gilt-framed mirrors
divergent whole
Mike Lala is a poet and performance writer living in New York City. He's the author of The Unreal City (Tupelo Press, 2023), Exit Theater (Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2016), and several chapbooks including Points of Return (Ghost Proposal, 2023), and is a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2022). Lala’s installations, performance, and libretti include Whale Fall (2021), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (2020, with Iris McCloughan), Oedipus in the District (2018–19), and Infinite Odyssey (2018). www.mikelala.com
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Walked a hallway of the constant shifting commons
someone called the present the future
as they glided past gilt-framed mirrors
divergent whole
About the Author
Mike Lala is a poet and performance writer living in New York City. He's the author of The Unreal City (Tupelo Press, 2023), Exit Theater (Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2016), and several chapbooks including Points of Return (Ghost Proposal, 2023), and is a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2022). Lala’s installations, performance, and libretti include Whale Fall (2021), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (2020, with Iris McCloughan), Oedipus in the District (2018–19), and Infinite Odyssey (2018). www.mikelala.com
