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Devon Fulford’s gulp is not a collection to be slowly sipped – it’s one to be swallowed whole, with gusto. Her punk poetry pulses with raw emotion and elegant craft, commanding your attention like a sharp snap to the spine. Each poem strikes with such visceral honesty, you’ll find yourself gulping both from the gut-level punch and the cerebral jolt. Navigating love, loss, and life’s jagged edges, Fulford’s musicality sings even as it jars, creating a work that’s as unflinchingly real as it is masterfully composed. gulp doesn’t just ask to be read – it insists on being felt.
Mass Giorgini, Music Producer, Sonic Iguana Studios (Green Day, All-American Rejects, Rise Against)
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Devon Fulford's gulp delves into deeply personal themes with raw honesty and vivid storytelling – these poems explore sexuality, trauma, and identity with a vulnerability that is both tender and unflinching, evoking imagery as delicate yet perilous as "a fawn in spring toying with the feral / mountain lions not really understanding just how sharp and ready / their mouths are." Fulford's keen cultural observations and critiques, interwoven with tales of youthful exploration, add layers of depth to the collection. The result is a compelling narrative readers will find impossible to put down, eagerly consuming each line with the fervor suggested by the title itself.
Kristiane Weeks-Rogers, Poet, Self-Anointment With Lemons
coming of age is not an endeavor that most of us would choose, given any other option. it’s messy, raw, maddening, and ultimately, an inevitable part of growing up. when you’re a girl growing up in the south, societal pressures and expectations can feel positively oppressive at times. what is a body? why does skin have so much power? and what of the commingling frustrations and joys of sex versus love?
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the skin song delves into instances of sex and intimacy that shaped the author as a young person learning about herself and the world in which we live. each free verse, stream-of-consciousness poem explores one of devon fulford’s core memories: some are funny, many are painful, but all are fraught with the perfect 20/20 vision only hindsight can offer.
While reading this small book of poetry by d.e. fulford, the sensation I felt left me wanting more. Rich imagery, coupled with a sensuality, exposing a raw realness is the essence printed on each page. Through her words, fulford shared shards of memories. It is filled with fundamental realities. One just knows she wrote with a keen eye seeing the subtle and bleeding of life's truths.
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Carolyn Riker, Poet, The Colors I Hear: Poems & Prose to Inspire Creativity
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