About the Book: Return to Self
A good poem/p> d
oes not seek love/p>
It seeks only/p>
to write itself/p>
Perundevis poems and antipoems sidestep and overturn entrenched literary
conventions even as they seek to enlarge the scope of what may enter a poem. /p>
All manner of sentient beings—humans, animals, birds, fish and insects—and a
teeming variety of objects, including smartphones, drones, luggage trolleys, sex
toys, wine glasses and flowerpots, share equal space in Perundevis poetic field,
continually acting upon one another. Imbued with the richness and complexity of
this relational life, her poems give expression, perhaps for