BOOKS
I'm Fine. How Are You? explores love, anxiety, loss, and ultimately hope in the ability of language to heal trauma. Through threaded stories of a lover on a road trip with another woman, a violent old flame, and a friend's suicide, the speaker unravels the troubling knot between herself and others, and between body and psyche in search of strength.
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I'm Fine. How Are You? was selected by Chloe Caldwell as the winning chapbook of the 2018 Newfound Prose Prize. It was reviewed by Robert Sorrel in Cleaver Magazine.
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For more information behind the work read this interview with the author,
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“I’m obsessed with I’m Fine. How Are You? Reckless & ballsy & raw & smart.”
—Chloe Caldwell, author of “Women”
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“Is it a Lyric Essay? Is it a Long Poem? Is it Meditations? ‘I’m Fine. How Are You?’ is about relationships and violence and loss and art and is a wonderful manifestation of Zukofsky’s definition of poetry; ‘It is precise information on existence out of which it grows, and information on its own existence.’ Pikula’s disarming voice is precise and totally winning.”
—Mathew Rohrer, author of “The Others”