PREORDER. Official Release date June 6, 2026.

These poems laugh from deep within the Anthropocene, carving a psychic space where absurdity can be tempered with basic humanity. This collection invites you to join in metaphysically dismantling capitalism's death-grip on our imaginations.

It's hard to stay current on the 'possum tactic,

Be it in regards to grizzly bears, psychotic gun men,

Or the memory that stalks you like a pelican spider.

-from "Active Threat Training Refresher"

Praise for Laurence Wilhelm Lillvik:

"Laurence Lillvik's new collection sings with honesty, grief, and hope. It's a stage dive into reality. Lillvik's talent is not just narrative but lyrical. How lucky we are to have this book in the world and to hold it in our hands." -Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry

Laurence Lillvik fractures the present with the still-warm memories of people and places (and their things) that make for 'an impatient nest.' The poems in Catharsis Is Never Fully Shorn From Glee wrestle with how we process our feelings in the moment and what of our human experience sticks to our skin. Each line in this collection burns and fades as the pages turn, leaving smoke in the air that you can't help but breathe. And everyone knows that the sense of smell carries the most vivid memories."  -Kevin Sampsell, author of Baby in the Night  

"It's hard to be pretty and funny, but Lillvik's poetry is a lot of both. Dark, baroque, at times hilarious when hilarious is necessary. Lillvik's is a vital, new American voice." -Adam Gnade, author of After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different

ISBN: 978-1-951226-25-1

Page Count: 96

Price: $13.95

Release Date: 6 June 2025