Your Life as It Is

Your Life as It Is is the winner of the Editor’s Choice Award for the Accents Publishing 2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest. ‘Your Life as It Isholds nothing predictable. Although each of A. Molotkov’s daybook prose poems begins with You wake up in the morning …, everything else-including the speaker’s gender-is in flux. This is the multiverse wherein changes replace changes, wherein the speaker must continually create and re-create perception and personal history. In this remarkable, eerily melancholy sequence, whatever Molotkov’s voice embraces undergoes swift and multiple and brilliant transmutations.These poems create a cumulative ffect both moving and unsettling.’ -Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita