MENTAL VOODOO (Engeler Verlage/Poesie Dekolonie, 2024)

“Rimbaud’s idea of a ‘systematic derangement of the senses’ is put to work in the poems of Logan February. There is so much texture, movement and sound evoked in their poems that the reader may sense overwhelm—the trick is to soften into a new logic, to understand we are experiencing a voice with a deep memory, one concerned with beauty and trauma of the body and the land. As February puts it in one stunning poem titled “At Prophetstown”: Here we are, walking / through the ghosts who first tended / the land. From my broken country, I came // here. Histories at once without / and within me. Logan February is a rare generational talent. Witness it.” —Raymond Antrobus

“Bold and fiercely defiant worship of the black, queer body. Edgy and vibrant, this is layered and deeply conceptual poetry with confessional intones and fatalistic intents.” —Dami Ajayi

” … beguilingly magical … ” —Deutschlandfunk Radio

“Conceptually strictly worked out, content fluid … The bilingual volume translated by Christian Filips opens a door.” —SWR Kultur Bestenliste, April 2024

“ … a great reading experience, multilingual, multi-sensual, multi-faceted.” —2024 Lyrik Empfehlungen (Poetry Book Recommendation)