Rather than force these love-stories into serial monogamies, this collection lets them overlap and tell a story of romantic and sexual multiplicity, a story of compassionate and passionate complexity. The Exit Show is about coming to terms with plurality. The work is sensual, human, and multifaceted. It depicts an intimate view of polyamoury in many configurations. Aesthetically the poetry is focused on sound and imagery, on the music/cadence of language, while the ideas depict a world outside models of monogamous hetero-normalcy. Variation in social forms are expressed, in part, through variations of poetic style that range from emails to prose poetry to lyric and beyond into integrated linguistic architectures. Angels roam the pages.

Anne F. Walker founded Redwood Coast Press, and edited the anthology of poetry and poetic prose bit to eat place with Andrea Adolph. After earning a BFA from York University’s Creative Writing Program in Toronto, she worked briefly in film, subsequently designing a program in Urban Poetics at the University of Berkeley. Her poetry has been granted awards from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Film Development Cooperation, and the bpNichol Memorial Fund. Twice her work won the University of California’s Eisner Award for literature, and a selection of poetry from The Exit Show was shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her previous books of poetry include Into the Peculiar Dark, Pregnant Poems, and Six Months Rent. A Canadian / American dual national, she divides her time between Berkeley and Toronto.

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