Joy Ladin’s The Book of Anna is a vital investigation of genre resistance and redemptive doubling. “Today I decided to write great poetry. / Or die trying.” Anna Asher, the protagonist of Joy Ladin’s The…
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“to mukethe” and “notjustyet notjustyet”
to mukethe come listen to the wind with me. those gulf storms are still blowing residual gusts east, only so much that it’s a nightlong pleasant rattle on the bedroom’s flimsy windows; not enough to…
For the Blood of Me
The month wanes. Soon my mother will make sure I swallow three shredded dates daily, for the blood of me. I say: no can’t you see it’s a chore to dig them out, tongue on…
Strange Features
I’m the type to go unseen in the world. I’m the milk of women. —Ellen Welcker Once while boarding a train Marilyn Monroe turned to a friend and said Do you want to see me…
Indexing the Life and Death Experience of Homelessness
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