Finalist 2020 Book Award in poetry
Tupelo Press, August 2020 | cover art, Mister Blick
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BOOK TRAILER
Virtual Reality Poem
Excerpts
“Poem Excluding City,” Poetry Daily
“Poem Excluding Fiction,” Poets.org
“Poem Excluding Air Quotes,” Literary Hub
“Poem Excluding Government,” Verse Daily
“Poem Excluding Opposite Day,” The Brooklyn Rail
“Poem Excluding Gun Control,” Diagram
“Poem Excluding Modern Technology,” Poets & Writers
PRAISE
“These poems are fraught machines that crack and fizzle, that think deeply and resist the low ground, that come from a place of uncanny wildness and heft.”
—Natalie Shapero, author of Popular Longing
“Falck invites us to see with more feeling, to grin with more bearing, to care like it can change us. ‘The heart is the most donated organ,’ he writes; in this book of absences, the heart is never missing.”
—Zach Savich, author of Full Catastrophe Living
“Falck’s gloom’s a playful one, and his Exclusions creep into and around our midst in order to ask a little something of us. Gentle, but jarring, these poems let us in to where we are. The password is you.”
—Graham Foust, author of Nightingalelessness
“Exclusions keeps us off balance, stumbling forward, and absolutely alive with both the inventive possibilities of lyric poetry and that rare experience of watching the genre redefine itself in a pair of this art’s most capable hands.”
—Michael McGriff, author of Eternal Sentences
reviews / interviews
Adroit Journal (review)
Kenyon Review (review)
Diagram (review)
Heavy Feather Review (review)
Full Stop (interview)
Neon Pajamas (interview)
Heavy Feather Review (interview)
Rob McLennan’s Blog (interview)
Largehearted Boy (playlist)
Buffalo Spree (article)
Stanford Daily (article)
recorded readings
Wednesday Night Poetry Series - August 5, 2020
Poetry Is Bread Series - May 30, 2020