These Latest Apocalypses by Jason Montgomery
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Endings are at the forefront of Jason Montgomery’s These Latest Apocalypses—ecological collapse, war, gentrification, addiction, aging. Sometimes it’s just a suggestion of an end, “the fraying hem of [his] cut-off jeans” that deftly alludes to the prevailing sense that we are coming to a conclusion. It’s there in the nonets, too, which balance precariously on a single last syllable. A timely book, urgent, though still hopeful. He has given us more than a eulogy for humanity. “Rage is hope,” Montgomery writes, after all. The reverberations of these incisive poems will stay with you long after you have finished reading.”
– Catherine Weiss, poet
Jason Montgomery looks head-on at struggle – the “blue inside things,” and the tiredness that comes from dealing with it all. These poems are way more than one-note. They remind us that “not every moment is a horror.” This is a book that chooses to do something other than contribute to that. As he writes, “It would be so easy // To paint my own fists gun-metal gray / Then let loose on the hard spots of the world.” In reading these poems, we feel an alternative emerge, providing a different, difficult, stirring place to turn.
– Megan McDermott, poet
This collection of poetry tells us the apocalypses of recovery, parenthood, systems of harm towards community, and survival. These Latest Apocalypses is filled with epistolaries either asked to be disposed of or shared with loved ones; with nonets fluid and fleeting; all with brilliantly intense imagery and realism. Jason is showing the reader his home. And I am grateful to him for doing so.”
– Maya Williams, poet
These Latest Apocalypses – Jason Montgomery – Arteidolia Press 2023
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ISBN: 979-8-9889702-1-7, 84 pages, $14
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THESE LATEST APOCALYPSES is also available at these bookstores:
Broadside Books, Northampton, MA
Blue Moon Books, Easthampton, MA
Amherst Books, Amherst, MA
Topos Bookstore, Ridgewood, NY
Quimby’s Bookstore, Williamsburg, NY
Jason R. Montgomery, or JRM, is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian writer, painter, community artist and engagement artist from El Centro, California. In 2016, along with Poet Alexandra Woolner, and illustrator Jen Wagner, JRM founded Attack Bear Press in Easthampton, MA. Jason’s work engages the cross-section of Chicano/Indigenous identity, cultural hybridization, post-colonial reconstruction, and political agency. His writing and visual art bridges the aesthetics and feel from the early cubist collage movement and the Russian abstract movement of the 1920s with living and historical Native/Indigenous Californian and Chicano art traditions to explore the Post-colonial narrative through active synthesis and guided (re)construction. JRM’s work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Storm Cellar, Ilanot Review, Rust and Moth and other publications. Jason is one of 2021 Newell Flather Awards for Leadership in Public Art outstanding nominees and 2021-2023 Easthampton Poets Laureate. Jason is also the co-founder of the police abolition group “A Knee is Not Enough” (AKINE) in Easthampton, MA.
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