Nikki Wallschlaeger
My memories are red space and today the rockets red blare so I order a pizza and I can think again writing through this slew of toppings things that cover me made me
Through a series of frenetic, densely lyrical prose poems, Nikki Wallschlaeger’s Pizza and Warfare foregrounds the linkage between abusive dynamics, globalized violence, and rampant consumption: pizza as both cheese-covered salve and wound. 16 pages. Hand-stitched with collaged endpapers.
Nikki Wallschlaeger is the author of the poetry collections Hold Your Own (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Waterbaby (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017); and Houses (Horseless Press 2015). She has also published the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (Bloof Books, 2019).
A 2021–22 visiting associate professor of poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wallschlaeger lives in Wisconsin.
