Now Just This (Hardcover w/Audio Flash Drive, 2017)
Poems by Libby Wagner with Music by Owen Ó Súilleabháin
Now Just This is an extraordinary compilation of poems and original music like no other. Wagner’s poems evoke a woman coming into focus—beautiful but foggy—something is not yet clear for her, but she is emerging, stronger, and clearer than before. Ó Súilleabháin’s compositions of percussion, sounds, and musicality create layers of haunting, embodied experiences. Listeners are lifted out of the ordinary and transported through love loss and reclamation on an emotional arc.
PRAISE:
"Libby is a wonderful, fresh poet/artist! Her use of language, the timbre, and beat of the pulse of poetry is so alive and so vital that it feels like a guided tour of her sensual soul." — Regena 'Mama Gena' Thomashaeur, founder of the School of Womanly Arts and author of PUSSY: A Reclamation.
"Libby Wagner reminds me of what's best about voice rising in a woman: that we must reinvent ourselves endlessly. That our becoming is ongoing. That the voice is a muscle."— Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan and The Chronology of Water.
