Metamorphoses City Lights Spotlight No. 22

<p><b>One of <i>Publishers Weekly</i>'s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023</b><br></p><p><i>Metamorphoses</i><span> springs from Ovid’s epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience. In poems that shift registers from travelogue to elegy, from nature documentary to a simple record of the realities of daily life,  Evan Kennedy focuses on transformation, personal and collective, in an empire in decline, in a world transfigured by ecological upheaval.</span><br></p> <p>With a range of reference from Roman household Gods to San Francisco poetic titans to musical celebrities like Madonna and Bob Dylan, <i>Metamorphoses</i> confronts change as an inevitable molecular process. </p>