Praise for Sean Felix's 'Did You Even Know I Was Here'

Written by Sarah Herrin

Sean Felix writes with the fervour of every poet who has ever fallen in love with the seductive muse of Paris. His work is fuelled by a gritty determination to keep crawling forward – through insomniac nights and midnight possessions. “From the echoing drums on cold stone / a necromancer in the shape of a black man / too ugly to share my face so I draw on it.” He possesses an ability to set a vivid scene and tell a story so dramatic, you’ll awake as if from a lucid dream.

This collection beckons like a wisp of smoke through a series of haunting memories, drawn on blood-rusted images of long ago wars and the bittersweet longing of modern-day lovers. “My heart grew calm inside you / … In a different bed / we could grow food on mars together.”

Follow Felix down the boulevards, stroll along the nighttime Seine, and get lost in the eerie silence of a parallel world that seems strangely familiar. “I don’t want to have to shoot day for night like / Truffaut, because the sun never sets in the republic / and you only want me in the dark.”

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SEAN FELIX is a poet from Maryland. He is the author of Did You Even Know I Was Here? which he published in 2020. Sean is also a talented visual artist and an educator with a fondness for Haiku. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children.