Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 6 pm at Off Square Books
Join Square Books for an evening of verse with poets Alicia Wright and Cody-Rose Clevidence, for their new collections You’re Called By the Same Sound and This Household of Earthly Nature.
About the books
You’re Called by the Same Sound is a reckoning, a confrontation, and a visionary meditation that interleaves private grief with public lament. As they dredge a family archive in response to histories of devastation in northwest Georgia and the American South, Alicia Wright’s flinty lyrics inventory and seek to resist a legacy of despoliation. Wright extends the lineage of late Modernist poets like Lorine Niedecker and Susan Howe to warn us that history is a “murky churn” in which our collective reflection is crystal clear.
Animate, emotive, sensory-rich and a little vicious, This Household of Earthly Nature by Cody-Rose Clevidence takes as its subject the earth as a planet, small, contaminated and alone in vast space, and the humans, other creatures and technologies swarming it with life. Formally inventive and lyrically quick, referencing Tennyson in one breath and the metaverse the next, these poems wander through spacetime with their ecologies, exploring what it could mean to be living, sensate and awake in this weird moment of historical time, a mixture half of awe and half of madness.
About the authors
Alicia Wright is the author of You’re Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, August 2025) and A Coin, A Moth, A Literary Journal, an essay chapbook forthcoming from DoubleCross Press. Her poems appear in The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Chicago Review, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Annulet and Annulet Editions, and she works as Managing Editor of The Iowa Review.
Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of This Household of Earthly Nature (Roof, 2025), The Grimace of Eden Now (Fonograph, 2024), Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (Nightboat, 2021), Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021), Flung/Throne (Ahsahta, 2018), and BEAST FEAST (Ahsahta Press, 2014), as well as several chapbooks (flowers and cream, NION, garden door press, Auric). Occasionally a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, they live in the Arkansas Ozarks with four loyal and sentient non-human animals.
You’re Called By the Same Sound
by Alicia Wright
$17.95
Publisher: Thirdhand Books
ISBN: 9781949344660
This Household of Earthly Nature
by Cody-Rose Clevidence
$20.00
Publisher: Roof Books
ISBN: 9798991501163
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