Album artwork for Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis

The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.

The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis’s larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.

Sadie Dupuis

Cry Perfume

Black Ocean
Album artwork for Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis
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$22.00

Released 10/04/2022Catalog Number

9781939568625

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Album artwork for Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis
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$16.00

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Released 10/04/2022Catalog Number

9781939568625signed

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Sadie Dupuis

Cry Perfume

Black Ocean
Album artwork for Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis
Paperback

$22.00

Released 10/04/2022Catalog Number

9781939568625

Learn more
Album artwork for Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis
Paperback +

$16.00

Signed by the author!

Released 10/04/2022Catalog Number

9781939568625signed

Learn more

The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.

The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis’s larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.