Aly Pierce is from Doylestown, PA and currently lives in Beverly, MA. Her debut collection The Visible Planets (Game Over Books) and chapbook Cryptids (Ginger Bug Press) both came out in 2020. You can find her online as @instantweekend.
A split chapbook with Cassandra de Alba, Cryptids explores hidden things through the lens of sea monsters and famous photographs of ghosts.
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Space can be a cold abyss, or it can be a tender darkness where we remake what haunts us. “It’s hard to make progress/with old science” but I dare you to tell me Aly Pierce’s poems don’t draw on all the former stories told about the stars to make a new cosmos where every planet or moon is a person we know intimately. These poems circle the unknown until we recognize it as already part of us. I read them & feel smaller than I realized I was, but what a gift to find the known universe granular as it travels through Pierce's lens, at once exploding & perfected by attention. Here, the vocabulary of particle physics, of math, of medicine, of humility, of grief, of orbit, is a limitless love language we all have in common.
-Emily O’Neill, author of a falling knife has no handle