A Cluster of Noisy Planets

by Charles Rafferty (Author)

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Fiction Poetry

First printing: 2,000 copies.

A Cluster of Noisy Planets is Charles Rafferty’s second collection with BOA Editions and his fourteenth collection overall. His previous collection with BOA, The Smoke of Horses (2018), was a finalist for the 2018 Connecticut Book Award.

One of the poems in this collection—“Inadvertent Mousetrap”—won the Third Place Award for the 2019 VERA Awards from Vestal Review

Rafferty's poems have appeared widely in such places as The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, Plume, The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.

Since he was a teenager, Rafferty has drawn significant influence from the poet Arthur Rimbaud. His work is similar to that of Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Christopher Kennedy, and Russell Edson.

The poems in this collection continue Rafferty’s exploration of prose poems. Rafferty says, “I became dissatisfied with my own lineation about 10 years ago, and I’ve been writing prose poems ever since. I feel like they give me permission to be as wild as I might want. There is not one overarching theme [in this collection]—unless it is to see what's possible once we jettison the idea of lines.”

Strong regional appeal for New England.

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October 05, 2021

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Boa Editions Ltd.

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English

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9781950774487

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9781950774470

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2 MB

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