LM Rivera lives in Santa Fe, NM. He co-edits Called Back Books w/ his partner, the poet Sharon Zetter. His work has appeared in Upstairs at Duroc, Alien Mouth, FUZZ, Mannequin Haus, Prelude, Dream Pop Press, and elsewhere. His chapbook THE LITTLE LEGACIES is available from Glo Worm Press.

Books by LM Rivera:

About The Drunkards:

"The Drunkards fixes stillness in light-dunked ecstasy. Anxiety-pumped and ghost-voiced, LM Rivera urgently rolls out a new plan for language. The results are unsettling and poignant."
—Avital Ronell

"For LM Rivera, poetry is a desert where voices speak out of the air, in dialogue, in chorus, or murmur outlandishly, inside our own 'somniferous' skulls. The voices say: The Kingdom of the Book may never get here, but it's always arriving. In these extraordinary poems, critical thought mingles with apocalyptic feelings as we wander, lost and ecstatic in our thirst. We read them to get ready."
—Joseph Donahue

"LM Rivera deploys every technique known to humanity for representing dialogue. From Spicer he learns to split the page in two, with different voices proceeding in parallel at top and bottom. From Dickinson he learns to mark the space between utterances with a dash. From Celan he learns to compound multiple words into a single word. From Jabès he learns to amplify his own text with a Talmudic commentary. And he takes copious epigraphs (more than I can count or identify) from other voices in the great dialogue of civilization. This is a book of traditional knowledge, in other words. What gives it such a sharp impression of strangeness? There is another, esoteric dimension of dialogue in this book that has no name and is best represented by the bizarre figure of drunkenness. The drink goes inside and the voice gets drunk and within it another voice opens up."
—Aaron Kunin