ULTIMATE POWER (is in a Rose)

Written and designed by Audra Wist. Printed by Who Press’d Press in Philadelphia, PA 2021, released in May 2022.

“Suffused with venom, bravado, and tenderness, Wist captures all the lingering moments between wanting and getting; between staying and going; between a delicate sous-vide femininity, and the fleshy, sensuous experience of being a real red-blooded broad. A real-life woman whose arsenal of words is as full as her armoire. A real-life person who loves, loses, and finds certainty again: calculating the relative spoils between a life of being seen – grappled with, respected – and remaining utterly imperceptible, occluded – comically and seriously villain-like. Wist exposes the soft little voids we find in moments of intimacy, and somehow meets them with an affordable kind of glamour. Thunderous, hazy, and oh so witty, ULTIMATE POWER washes over the reader and stays, like that one cocktail or perfume whose aroma conjures the delectable feeling of memory in and of itself.”

- Lex Brown