Mulholland Dive

<p><b>It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing Vanessa Roveto acclaimed author of <i>bodys</i> begins her book within the remnants of a car crash fragmenting identity grief and heart.</b></p><p>Beginning with the death of daddy the “I” soon meshes with whatever and whomever she comes into contact with-strangers actors a Covid crush. She absorbs these people and objects dispersing them into the Southern California landscape the Uncanny Valley warping time and naturalizing dreams.</p><p>Documenting a period of both global and personal loss Roveto crafts a book-length poem that weighs heavier than the Ego in L.A. Splintering Self between Other and palm trees in the summer heat <i>Mulholland Dive</i> spins a Lynchian setting within a feminine eruption of alluring language fluked romance and the aftershocks of grief.</p>