Ian Bodkin

Fingertip Scripture

Mar 31, 2014 | Chapbook, Poetry

“Fingertip Scriptures is one part Sam Shepard play, one part surreal Gothic gospel, and one part American History 101 drunk on Netflix. This is a rare and seething and hilarious American original, like nothing I have ever read. May its burning lights lead you to whole new vistas and visions of what the genius of collaboration can do and is in this brilliant montage.”

Every Word Was Once Drunk

Feb 8, 2014 | Poetry

In Ian Bodkin’s first book of poems Every Word Was Once Drunk, the oracular and the ecstatic meet in the searing character of Drunk who is splashed across these pages like so much lighter fluid. His poems make me want to laugh and dance and wail deep into the night all the way to the stars. He is already a poet to be cherished and celebrated, already a poet to be loved and read again and again.