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Justin Lacour<\/a><\/h2>\n

A Reading from the Book of Panic<\/h3>\n

ISBN: 978-1-956921-53-3<\/span>\u00a0(pbk.)<\/p>\n

(September 15, 2025)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Justin Lacour\u2019s A Reading from the Book of Panic<\/i> begins in Eden and ends with a little epic.\u00a0 Along the way, the poems contemplate anxiety, family, faith, addiction, and youth. There are elegies. There is a letter to Caitlin Clark. The primary focus of the book though is on love and marriage\u2013whether looking at marriage through the lens of Genesis as a search for connection and intimacy or sending love letters that incorporate art, mythology, politics, B movies, and Keanu Reeves. The poems are by turns funny and tender, but always honest, as the couple tells each other myths, jokes, stories, and fairy tales until their marriage becomes an epic of its own.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s with good reason that the long opening poem \u201cA Marriage\u201d begins in an Eden, for Lacour\u2019s calling cards here are a vulnerable interiority of run-on anxieties and of proving oneself after a fall from grace, seen throughout the probing interrogations in the prose poems that make up all but a choice few in this book. This is a collection not composed of young lovers but of those tested and scarred, for whom cultivation and upkeep is paramount and, yes, panic-inducing. Banishment is unthinkable but never far from mind. Throughout A Reading from the Book of Panic<\/em>,\u00a0what astounds is the resilience of devotion, of clinging to the shine of love even amid the loss of its starry-eyed luster, stubbornly and necessarily believing such a shine doesn\u2019t just return but takes on a new brilliance. A meditation on the maintenance of love.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jacob Schepers, author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises <\/em><\/p>\n

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A man\u2019s wife no longer wants roses. Maybe words, \u201cbut the right words.\u201d And thus, A Reading from the Book of Panic<\/em> is born. In these urgent and vulnerable poems, Justin Lacour reaches for his wife, Kate, again and again, and touches us, his readers, in \u201call the places\/ you hurt without hurting them again.\u201d Deeply feminist, the stakes here are high\u2014\u201csomething to do with us staying together until we die.\u201d As Lacour examines their \u201clives muddy but sacred,\u201d we can only hope this Hail Mary landed safely and that the two are sitting on the porch, parting the pages and lifting a mocktail\u2014both in and towards\u2014the great pink light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014Nicole Callihan, author of SLIP<\/em> & This Strange Garment <\/em><\/p>\n

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In A Reading from the Book of Panic<\/em> women lose their shoes at parties, the serpent is always hungry, Italian girls are doing nitrous in the dorms; the AA meeting is always just down the street, Melville\u2019s eyes are still blue; sweaters are full of holes, hands are clumsy on the back, nipples sore; and the two-headed animal that is a marriage, a creature of ache and lust, epic and weedy, opens up its mouth wide and swallows us.<\/p>\n

\u2014Ann Pedone, Editor-in-Chief of Antiphony: a journal & press<\/em><\/p>\n

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