de la Flor constructs an introspective and linguistically intricate backdrop upon which he and Maureen Seaton engage in a genre-defying conversation of original meta-analytic philosophies: The Boat with a Girls’ Heart as collage, the act of keeping Maureen alive on the page, freedom, cyclones, softballs, two queens standing on the tip of a glow stick—this collection becomes both elegy and celebration, a layered palimpsest of queer friendship and poetic wisdom.” — Clayre Benzadón, author of Moon as Salted Lemon
Richly collaged, lush, oft-surprising and highly inventive, this collection by Neil de la Flor glows. The Boy with a Girl’s Heart gives wonderful tribute to collaborator and friend Maureen Seaton and is a powerful love letter to the art of creation and collaboration, especially of poetry that lasts. This collection is heartfelt and touching and sigh-sweet. de la Flor deftly weaves in and out of a “boy’s with a Girl’s” heart and gives us a peek into intimate conversations and flights of fancy. Every line in this magnificent chapbook struck me and shook me down to the core and made me remember that “survival is never pretty” but poetry this beautiful is why we write in the first place. Thank you, Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, for giving us a peek into your relationship, which miraculously mirrors the little shudderings of our own poetic hearts. This one is a gem. — Jennifer Maritza McCauley, author of When Trying to Return Home
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