Anywhere I Lay My Head
Book Title: Anywhere I Lay My Head
Author: Dylan Angell
Page Count: 45
Trim: 5 x 5
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.00
Publish Date: 18th February 2022
In Anywhere I Lay My Head Dylan Angell shares a sequence of memories - refracted visions of various abodes. Expressed in matter-of-fact verses that bump, cajole and influence each other, recollections cascade through the magical and mundane in their portrayal of being a human and seeking a home. Documentary-dream-like, wry, tragic, and often beguiling this book underlines the transience of contemporary living, and the fleeting nature of life, itself.
Dylan Angell is a writer and musician originally from North Carolina. He has released multiple chapbooks and zines including I Am My Own Imaginary Friend (2020), Sinking Windows(2019) and An Index of Strangers Whom I Will Never Forget A-Z (2016). He has collaborated with photographer Erin Taylor Kennedy on multiple projects including the chapbooks Beyond the Colosseum (2018) and I'll Just Keep On Dreaming And Being The Way I Am (2017). When he isn’t writing he is playing the trumpet.
Endorsement of Anywhere I Lay My Head from Francisco Fenton
These poems are a welcome window through which we return to a deep awareness of how the present updates the past: reflected on a transparent surface, we watch time recede into itself, portrayed in a language of sincere memory, leaving aside any concern for superfluous form and the blind speed that would otherwise have us believe there is but one city repeating itself, and no transit to the arrival at ourselves.
