Christian Gullette

San Francisco

Editor-in-Chief at Cortland Review

author of COACHELLA ELEGY | @triohousepress “cool, elegantly controlled poems” - @washingtonpost

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Coachella Elegy

Oct 2, 2024 | beta.poetryfoundation.org | Christian Gullette |Virginia Konchan |Virginia Konchan Purchase

Californian landscapes in crisis and transitiveness as a state of being frame Christian Gullette’s Coachella Elegy. These chiseled, cartographic poems take us through Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, in intimate, foreboding portraits of self, state, family, and love. The poet, seeking terra firma, proves place to be a metaphor for mind:We spent the nightlooking at lights on mansionsin the Provo hills wherethere were songs and warm babies.
Christian Gullette’s playlist for his poetry collection “Coachella Elegy”

Aug 12, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Christian Gullette

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Christian Gullette’s poetry collectionCoachella Elegy is a striking portrait of an evolving California and its denizens.
Coachella Elegy

Jul 5, 2024 | poets.org | Christian Gullette

Find and share the perfect poems. Somewhere there’s music. We drive by Coachellato the Salton Sea. A sea as dead as Salt Lake. My phone buzzes. It’s the anniversaryof my brother’s death. There are no reedsas there are at Canaand this water will notbecome wine. Shorebirds drink it,not because they lovethe worldbut becausethere’s a magnet in it. Is that freedom,this wandering? There’s a forgottenswing set submergedin this sea. Young people whoonce swayed on it still exist.
Coachella Elegy a book by Christian Gullette

Jan 9, 2024 | bookshop.org | Christian Gullette

(Author) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description Winner of the 2023 Trio Award, Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy explores the queer promised lands and poolside utopias of the American West even as they are threatened by environmental destruction.