Sad13 and Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis announces new poetry book

This afternoon (26 July) Sad13 and Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis has announced Cry Perfume, her second book of petry following 2018's Mouthguard. Cry Perfume was written across a four-year period while on tour, and is due to arrive in October.

Cry Perfume is a collection of poetry that also happens to be my 2nd book, & today and on future days you can pre-order it from @BlackOceanOrg (perfume emoji when)https://t.co/ZiZOGngXYm
book cover by Julian Montague
photo of me by @oo0oo pic.twitter.com/DDYWlXspq0

— speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy (@sad13) July 26, 2022

Pitchfork reports that Dupuis said of the book, "I’d lost friends to overdose, and felt anger at the ways in which live music largely ignores the needs of musicians and music fans who use drugs or who face addiction - and how in many ways, artists are encouraged toward untenable living. The chronic underpayment of musicians, the inseparability of venues and alcohol sales, and the arts’ increasing absorption into algorithmically-motivated tech felt like interwoven concerns."

Dupuis' second Sad13 album Haunted Painting was released in September 2020.