Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Monsters and into a delicate balance

and into a delicate balance between friendship and the possibility of more

Eschewing practical details

and to be an artist

communicate your wants and needs

Jamie Heckert

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Monsters and into a delicate balanceA book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream blocks, each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go, repeat and echo. The book is as staunch as it