SWiMMING
POOL INSIDE
the SUN

You've always suspected the Universe is stranger, wilder and more on your side than anyone's told you. Swimming Pool Inside the Sun is a collection of poems and stories that work like sublime spells, validating those suspicions.

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Is a comet speeding toward the Sun fatally doomed and tragic? Or could it be the sungrazer is finally arriving — not bounced off by gravity to swing back out into the void, but merging with the flame and fusion it’s been hustling toward for eons… What will its icy matter now become?

Cover reveal in sunny, golden hues and abstract watery bubbles floating over the title: Swimming Pool Inside the Sun by Laurie Perez
Cover reveal in sunny, golden hues and abstract watery bubbles floating over the title: Swimming Pool Inside the Sun by Laurie Perez

ABOUT THE BOOK

Enter this impossible
space, and lift.

Moving from mythology to monsoon, from the Knight of Voices to New Year's Eve in Y2K Manhattan, volcanic saturnalia and fern raves, applying SPF 50 and soaring up into the mesosphere where sprites flash scarlet over thunderclouds: Laurie Perez delivers a sweet plunge into impossible spaces where it turns out you are the occasion each star rises to behold.

  • This bright little book is a celebration, a steady dose of soulful wanderlust, a mad scientist mixing poolside cocktails, inviting you to dive in and be refreshed.

  • In language that is scientifically precise and mythopoetically wild, Laurie Perez traces the arc from grief to alchemy, from the cellular to the cosmic. These poems and stories gather keys to quantum physics, tarot, Celtic myths and organic chemistry and use them to unlock a state of being that is earthy, reverent, rebellious and celestial.

DNA, your brazen epic - like Odysseus, never quite escaping war... the gods keep their distance and you, sometimes hopeful, more often beleaguered, battle memes and earworms to keep transcribing sunsets...
-”Ars Poetica”
SWIMMING POOL INSIDE THE SUN

GET the BOOK: online or from your local bookseller 

Swimming Pool Inside the Sun is brand new, available for pre-order and that means right now is the best time to order it through your favorite local bookshop.

Yes, you can pre-order it online (Barnes, Amazon, Kobo, Fable, etc.) and that is beautiful! Online book listings are updating every day during the special order phase. Click here to find your preferred vendor. If you don’t see the one you’re looking for, use the contact form to let us know and we’ll try to locate it for you.

You can also order through an indie brick and mortar bookseller, which is perhaps the best of all. Give them the ISBN and make sure they have the exact title.

Ask them to order Swimming Pool Inside the Sun by Laurie Perez

ISBN 9798256022051

Swimming Pool Inside the Sun is available worldwide — in print and digital — through booksellers across the globe. It’s ready for special order now, with official release on June 16, 2026. That’s five days before Solstice ☀️

Links to the SPOTIFY PLAYLIST that is a curated list of songs and instrumental music customized to provide atmosphere complementary to the book, Swimming Pool Inside the Sun by Laurie Perez.

The Swimming Pool Inside the Sun PLAYLIST is a sensory prologue that gives the book an atmosphere and a taste of the vibe, tone and arc of the collection you’re venturing inside.

Starting with “Brighter” by RÜFÜS DU SOL shifting into “Fireflies” by Arctic Lake, the tracks carry you forward on waves across a range of swells and crests. There are stretches of instrumental pieces that hold space ideal for reading and more energetic tracks that lift you up, carry the mood right off the page. You’ll find familiar artists like BTS, Erykah Badu, Beach House and Björk, and discover music from deep in the crates by artists you’ve never heard of before — some of them might become new favorites.

Ask your smart speaker to “Play the Swimming Pool Inside the Sun playlist” or Start playing it now on Spotify.

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