Sadie Dupuis, known for her own musical output as Sad13 along with fronting the band Speedy Ortiz, announced her second poetry book Cry Perfume today. The follow-up to 2018's Mouthguard is a collection of poems written during excessive touring up until, well, the beginning of 2020 complicated that routine. The book, which has been in the making for four years, is out October 4 via Black Ocean.
The inspirations behind Cry Perfume were grief-fueled revelations about the music industry and addiction. “I’d lost friends to overdose, and felt anger at the ways in which live music largely ignores the needs of musicians and music fans who use drugs or who face addiction—and how in many ways, artists are encouraged toward untenable living,” Dupuis said. “The chronic underpayment of musicians, the inseparability of venues and alcohol sales, and the arts’ increasing absorption into algorithmically-motivated tech felt like interwoven concerns.”
These personal tragedies and the complicated cycle that fuels this abuse birthed a book of poetic fragrance. Pre-order Cry Perfume here.
