TIME COUNTS BACKWARD FROM INFINITY
K.M. Lighthouse

“Want to just start at the beginning?”

Born out of wondering what happens when you pare a novel down to only epiphanies, Time Counts Backward from Infinity tumbles through a series of broken vignettes, multi-faceted in both genre and scope as the narrative time travels through dialogue, transcriptions, poems, lifted text, mystic experiences, and autobiography to explore addiction and mental illness.

As the speaker traverses these breaks with reality, she relives trauma with her father and hallucinates a lover into being, reexperiencing her role in events such that reality itself takes new shape. In this raw unraveling of personal truth, K. M. Lighthouse asks us to believe the magic inherent in rewriting our stories each time we revisit the past.
262 pages | A5  5.83 x 8.27 in. | 2019
ISBN-13: 978-0-99-729877-2 (paperback)
$18
Andra Vltavín (formerly K. M. Lighthouse) is the author of Body Until Light, Time Counts Backward from Infinity, and two chapbooks of poetry. They have been published in many journals, including Toasted Cheese, About Place, and High Priestesses of Poetry, and were a winner of the 2021 DiBiase poetry contest. The poet is very involved in activism and is learning how to create better systems for people to belong to than patriarchy, capitalism, and white-body supremacy. They lead writing workshops; facilitate healing touch rituals; and believe that art, poetry, and aesthetics are forms of divinity. They live the revolutions of queerness and polyamory and are very happily settled with a nesting partner, two bunnies, and a spinning wheel at their home in Portland, OR.
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