Biolamp is now available for pre-order!
“So, this is where I find the poetry I cannot stop reading, ‘so hot it burned the air of enemy.’ Dennis James Sweeney's precise choices lend to a perfect economy of language, the kind of place a reader feels room to trust and blossom, die, and grow again.”
—CAConrad, author of First Light
“Intimate and haunting, Dennis James Sweeney’s Biolamp is a climate lament teeming with ghostly ecologies. As I read, I could see our extractive relationships with Earth in a mythic light. Each poem is urgent, present, but also resonant with voices from deep time.”
—Danielle Vogel, author of A Library of Light
Biolamp will be published by Autumn House Press in April 2027.
Pre-orders ship in April!
“Sometimes otherworldly, sometimes metaphysical, often breathy and prayerful, these elusive lyrics move through uneasy embodiment and oceanic consciousness, neither knowable without the other. Sweeney’s poems are porous islands of resolute openness, unclosed circuits of intimate lyric address that reach for their objects and beloveds without grasping or possession.”
—B.K. Fischer, author of Ceive
“Dennis James Sweeney’s Biolamp gleams at the foreshore of our ocean futures. In pantheistic surrender to what’s dead-in-life and alive-in-death, these poems surge out of a “renegade memory” that remembers what the planet awaits, its hallowed transformation and sacred decay. Sweeney’s lines coruscate and osmose in thrall to the marine realms they inhabit, “Where the dead swim tirelessly / In rings around the wet earth, or / What whales they miss.”
—Aditi Machado, author of Material Witness
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