A necessary new translation of a book that looks deeply and astutely at the nonhuman world, recognizing the role such entities play in shaping the assemblage of beings which comprise an environment.

Along with tough images from someone facing the end of life, there are generosity and extravagance in Ritvo’s poems—a result of an imagination on overdrive.

These poems take careful note of the methods by which humans are destroying the Earth, as well as the ways in which the planet is fighting back.

Men, the poems argue, want a goddess to sleep with, but in doing so may create a mother, and that terrifies them.

Hickman often sets out to compose her poems with the kind of sobriety that a surgeon has to maintain during an operation.

Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma of modernism: Gertrude Stein. The Press’s “Founding Editrix” Lee Ann Brown describes

Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a “real” woman.