RUSH (paperback)

D. Parker (she/her) spends most of her days surrounded by books both at work and at home. Her work has appeared in Dear Reader, Popshot Quarterly, Roi Faineant, Zero Readers, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Instagram: @hadesthereader, Twitter: @ParkerReads.

"D. Parker’s ‘Rush’ is a tender and charged piece debut. Here, Parker handles erotica channelled through fruits, long car journeys and occasionally heartache, providing a comprehensive view of a brimming sexual and romantic connection. Her use of language is meticulous with complementary forms, wherein the hollow spaces of the work reveal as much as the words themselves. This is a clever and carnal collection that stimulates the body and mind in equal measure, and it forms a strong foundation for this experimental writer to lean on. This is a certainly a collection to cherish, and a poet to watch." 

— Dr. Charley Barnes, Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing, author of “Lore: Flowers, Folklore, and Footnotes"

"In each poem in 'Rush,' I am in the scenario, breathing in the heat of the tea, the smell of sourdough, the wetness of sex. The reader is voyeur in D. Parker’s pamphlet and we are indulged in each scenario, the imagery of erotic meetings and trips and coffee shops makes me want to read more and more—I want to read the words the speaker’s lover writes in their notebook in ‘coffee,' I want to see the haircut in ‘what will I grab onto?’ and I want to devour the list of titles, as indulgent as the sex beautifully celebrated in each of the poems." 

— Wendy Allen, author of “Plastic Tubed Little Bird" (Broken Sleep Books)