Arlo Parks has announced a new poetry collection. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments From My Soft Machine is out September 12 via HarperCollins and its imprints 4th Estate and Dey Street Books. The book features 20 new poems, plus lyrics from Parks’ recent album My Soft Machine.

In a statement, Parks discussed her new collection:

Writing poetry, to me, is about profound interiority. It is about wading into the saltwater of your own body, capillaries bursting, eyes brimming, unmoored. This collection is the fruit of that inner probing. It is a tangled mass of everything that has made me angry or giddy or low or impossibly happy to be alive. It has taken me almost [23] years to share my poetry beyond a few trusted friends. Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you but here I am, doing it. I am proud to show you this personal lens that life shimmers through. This book is no longer mine. It is yours.

Parks recently performed a cover of Jai Paul’s “Jasmine” on SiriusXMU. Watch that happen below.

Arlo Parks: The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments From My Soft Machine

$22 at Amazon

$22 $21 at Bookshop