tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn

“One can only applaud Heidi Seaborn's spiritual and intellectual acumen. More than testimonial, the poems in tic tic tic bring to our age of volatility and urgent moral questions, a clear-sightedness owed to her Eliotic sense of history and rich literary knowledge. tic tic tic gently and magically reorients our eyes, turns us toward the light of awareness where language is action.”—Major Jackson

“Seaborn beautifully, movingly tracks and enacts an accelerating motion of insight through the inner and outer seasons of these challenging times.” —Arthur Sze

“The poems of tic tic tic syncopate—rising like the wild heartbeats of those who hope.” —Diana Khoi Nguyen

Heidi Seaborn is the author of Marilyn: Essays & Poems (Collector's Edition of An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe) (2022) and Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (2019). She is the winner of The Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize and has won or been shortlisted for over sixty literary awards or recognitions. She holds degrees from Stanford University and New York University and serves as executive editor of The Adroit Journal.