A sequel to the Alice James Award Winning If This Is the Age We End Discovery
Rooted in the poetics of speculative realism, The Last Great Adventure is You follows the Icelandic horse through a post-apocalyptic landscape where encounters with an enigmatic extraterrestrial presence gradually reveal new possibilities for life on Earth.
Advanced Praise
"Rosebud Ben-Oni makes quantum leaps in this second volume of her Discovery trilogy, galloping with Icelandic horses across post-apocalyptic realms of shimmering verse and the Multiverse. These poems show us how infinity resides within the bl∞dy hooves that mark the snow and in the trailing arc of fallen stars. Here is a surrealist poetry of proton and wishbone, of northern lights and stained glass shards, of blood and bloodline, and of dazzling, extraterrestrial possibilities."
—Deborah Paredez, author of Year of the Dog
“What is this delicacy of seeing so deep into the now, which is also the future? What is exposed, what stays hidden. How to live in between worlds when maybe that’s better than being somewhere. These poems immediately take us inside, over there, through, unraveling and praising simultaneously in their knowing, which is beyond this plane of existence, following love’s arrow, leading with brokenness and the wholeness of speech. Unlike any other book, to read The Last Great Adventure Is You is to witness the beautiful mind of Rosebud Ben-Oni."
—Jan Beatty, author of Dragstripping
"Rosebud Ben-Oni is a mind-blowing poet of manifold dimensions, as attuned to subatomic vibrations of the heart as to the turquoise radiance of magnetic pulsars firing across the cosmos. In The Last Great Adventure Is You, Ben-Oni crafts a celestial bestiary of starhorses and golden calves, pageants of pegasi and merpeople, fallen angels and Alpha Centaurians. Through otherworldly verses, Ben-Oni wrangles holy, equine figures into frame and beckons readers into the :: wild unplace :: of her imagination."
—Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White
Recent Book News/Events
A short clip from my reading in Alaska Quarterly Review’s Pièce de Résistance series featuring a new poem “On the Mandela Effect” from The Last Great Adventure Is You. (Full reading on YouTube.)
“On the Nature of the Speaker of My Poems” from The Last Great Adventure Is You in The Cincinnati Review.
“What Did I Do to Deserve This” and “On the Nature of Solaris” from The Last Great Adventure Is You in The Southampton Review.
“On the Wisdom of Optimus Prime” and “On the Legacy of Tron” from The Last Great Adventure Is You in Electric Lit.
Interview with Tupelo Quarterly journal on speculative realism & cautious optimism in The Last Great Adventure Is You.
“On Why String Theory is Wrong” from The Last Great Adventure Is You in Conduit.
“On the Nature of Threads” from The Last Great Adventure Is You in Waxwing.
