John-Francis Quiñonez — Uplifting Children’s Song: Keep Your Little Lights Alive

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Write Bloody Publishing, paperback

Publication Date: October 3rd, 2022

Publisher Marketing: Keep Your Little Lights Alive explores the Folkloric Nature of how Music intertwines and Opens Windows into our Memory. Sometimes confessional, sometimes playful and fae-like in its elusively – these poems grapple with the pains and gifts of Queer discovery, Gender, Mental Health, and Family. Anchored in a series of Poems Responding Track-by-Track to Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love (sometimes directly, sometimes based on what the song unlocks) the book, like the album, is split into two parts. The First – Narrative and free-flowing, The Second – imagines the speaker lost out at sea & astrally visiting and being visited by loved ones.

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