Along the Road Everyone Must Travel

Danielle Pafunda, Eugene Lang College '02

Along the Road Everyone Must Travel was selected by Hoa Nguyen as the winner of the 2023 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Pafunda’s tenth book of poems is set in the topsoil above the underworld, at the foot of empire, during a spring super-bloom, a colony collapse, in the end times. It’s a muscular meditation on belonging - in the sense of both property and one who is beloved. Traveling the road from desert to sea, detaching gender from the violence of capital, asking what happens when we finally refuse to dog-eat-dog our way through, this queer surrealist epic leaps from Homeric hymns to post-punk lyrics, holding friends close and calling its loves to play in poems slick with sex, illness, loss, and wonder.

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