failed (after)lives
The Blasted Tree, 2024
failed (after)lives is a collection of experimental writing that embraces many different forms and tones, including cheeky erasure poetry, excerpts from interview transcripts, frank prose poems, and more! Ryanne Kap reflects on a crisis of faith in Christianity and its version of the afterlife, the struggle to grasp a posthuman theory of death, and how both of these concepts interact with personal experiences of grief. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 50 chapbook hand-bound into fossil grey covers.
3 Days, 3 Months, 3 Years
3 Days, 3 Months, 3 Years tells three short, surreal stories about death. In 3 Days, a young girl waits patiently for her dismembered sister to resurrect. In 3 Months, a young woman wonders why she can’t stop eating her boyfriends. In 3 Years, one friend and one ghost meet on three different anniversaries of the latter’s death. Inspired by weird science fiction and avoidant attachment style, these stories explore the strange ways we deal with death, love, and infatuation.
correspondence
minichap with MODEL PRESS, 2022
“I think it’s important for you to know that / I used to think of love as performance not practice / this time I’m not falling I am taking my time with you”
goodbye, already
Frog Hollow Press, 2021
A debut poetry chapbook about grief and long overdue goodbyes.
Ryanne Kap 