Amandalynn Lovewell Illustrates I/O!

A huge thank you to Amandalynn for this gorgeous work that extends, revisions, and renews the book. Follow Amandalynn’s Instagram for complete access to this ongoing project. Prints available!

Praise for I/O

“Treading territory between myth and self, science and the imagination, eyesight and insight, Madeleine Wattenberg’s irresistible debut makes harmony of many worlds. The poems of I/O echo, shape-shift, and experiment. It is as if these poems truly were a passage from one place to another: ‘A pocketknife rattles in the washing machine. / Spring hasn’t yet broken through.’ These poems are tender and thrilling. Without a doubt, I will turn to I/O again and again.”
—Sally Keith, author of River House

“In I/O we are asked to consider along with the poet how an act of violence can be understood and transformed into art. In her search for a valid answer, Wattenberg looks through the microscopes and telescopes of science as well as the lens of myth. The scientific and mythic are not alternate, either/or ways of viewing the world but rather layered, both/and ways of coming to know. So these moving, intelligent poems argue—and enact—in dazzling images and varied musicks. I/O is as complex as it is engagingly accessible. The more I read and think about this astounding book the better it gets.”
—Jennifer Atkinson, author of The Thinking Eye