Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the human beings she encounters in their relative precarity, or for the fauna and flora that find means of existence in Namibia’s arid climate.

The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously adding to the mystery.

Fernandez poses an intellectual, referential voice that is continually confounding a consistent line of thought.

Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations of our words and choices are what define us.

The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that have been carefully pieced back together using poetry’s inner logic and grammar

Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a genre-bending collection containing micro-essays, dream logs, encyclopedia entries, and philosophical musings.

Gizzi is always exacting with his line breaks and in this case uses them to test his feeble autonomy over language by showing that he can break the line wherever and however he wants.