P.E.A.C.E.
P.E.A.C.E.
By Chariot Wish
Publication date: March 1, 2026
ISBN# 979-8-9889042-9-8
5.5 x 8" 112pp Paperback
$24.99
From the rubble of Uber Eats, Beyond Meat, and collapsing cities, Chariot Wish’s debut P.E.A.C.E. incants a radiant, visionary, and irreverent poetics of queer devotion. A lapidary for the end of one world, Wish’s ecstatic, embodied poems are pierced with holes, drenched in fluids, and alive with longing—for sex, for love, for a new world order. Channeling interlocutors like Simone Weil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Robert Glück, Wish blends Christian mysticism with a punk lineage of queer transgression, mending an urgent through-way between sacred and profane. What emerges is a text that is worshipful in the way only prayer and erotica can be. In P.E.A.C.E. the poem becomes a site of raw contact, where language touches flesh and readers encounter a world worth desiring, even in its ruin.
Chariot Wish is a poet living in New York. They are associate editor at Wonder Books and online editor of Amygdala Journal.
Praise for P.E.A.C.E.
“Nakedness has no limit in Chariot Wish’s poetry. What do we find in wounds and holes? Liberation? Redemption? A heedless sadness? Something beyond? We go inside the body and the experience to something raw–air, hunger, history–what glows beneath.”
–Robert Glück, author of Margery Kempe
“Sibling of the Book, I’ll have you know that Chariot Wish is a permutation of Revelations 19:15. They are the Page of Swords as an anarchist swordswallower, the hirsute scabbard of Eros’ molten sabre, always freshly pounded to form. A phlegmatic, viscous cudgel coats their syllables, dilates the voice, & secretes a rhythmic battery of elemental images. They will tread upon the winepress of the stanza & spurt the delicacies of the verb with bubbling space. Some think ‘romanticism’ is some bratwurst on milquetoast stavetool overlooking a foggy mountain range. Boring. Abandon that word. Seek the Messenger. Here’s a map. Trace the prairies, the bars, the boxcars, the nethers of lovers & beyonds that trail in abstract vortices which vanish like smoke. Remember: if y’all meet in Hell, it’s not Hell. P.E.A.C.E. be with you.”
–Aristilde Kirby, author of Daisy & Catherine²
“These poems move like perfectly terse, always revealing bulletins. Each one is loosely strung to reveal elements of a delicate and heroic portraiture. The magic and dubious romance of dailiness entwines us and begins to work as mortar. P.E.A.C.E. contains exquisite camera blocking in verse which calls to mind shades of James Schuyler’s work. Chariot allows the lush color of life to sit and accumulate until it suddenly wants out.”
–Cedar Sigo, author of Siren of Atlantis