Poetry. "Look at Darla Himeles, there on the razor's edge of survival as a Jew, note-taker of past and future extinctions, a poet fearless of science, unafraid of love or laughter. Listen as she sings love songs to the cephalopod dead, the manatees' eyes 'cataracted by microplastics,' and the Colorado that 'forgets it's a river.' Smile as she imagines T.S. Eliot becoming a blue crab. Meditate with her on our own eyes, possible 'reservoirs of the Anthropocene's / last sunlit hours.' Himeles helps us know our place as specks of a star, kin to all animals, in poems that dance with the pleasure of language." —Alicia Ostriker

Flesh Enough

Literature & Fiction

Himeles, Darla

Poetry

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Poetry. "The woman is singing and talking to you and she is urgent. This 'whittled woman / this battered blue fragment' has traveled far, has burst through harsh iterations of time and experience. In searing poems carried from the wreckages of marriage, of trauma-memory, of self-doubt toxic as glue, of once-sacred homes now vanished, McEniry's craft stays steady. Tough cadences and syllabic rigor thread themselves inside magic and enchanting music in a daughter's Sunday meal, a sea floor, a community of poets, and a 'honey-mint whisper / of eucalyptus.' There's more: wit and bite in the short lyrics a la Stevie Smith; and sound-bursts inside the spacious prose poems. Just when we're certain all is revealed of this wise and quirky soul-spirit-traveler, here comes young Eros, intoxicated by a lover's hair and a dove high in a tree where the poet declares: 'I built the foundation of my summer / on her creation.' This debut is a rare gift."—Judith Vollmer

some other wet landscape

Mceniry, Lynne

Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. "Much like the paintings of her muse Frida Kahlo, Tamara Zbrizher's poems throb with life force and remind us of the necessity of art. As this poet explores what it means to carry, birth, and raise a child, and what happens to the artist-mother in the process, her boundaries seem to give way. What is a self when it's tethered to others so completely and deeply? Mother, daughter, wife--how many selves are there? Zbrizher asks urgent questions and finds scabs / where home once was. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD refuses the easy comfort its title implies, instead the poet draws us deep into a new becoming."--Anne Marie Macari

Tell Me Something Good

Zbrizher, Tamara

Poetry. From the avenues, expressways, and rooftops of NYC, to prison cells, hospice rooms, and the graveyards of cork boards, merciless seashores, borders, and war zones, Michelle Chen takes her readers from POINT A TO POINT B and everywhere in between. In her poems, including "Wrecked" and "Body," Chen makes her reader realize how much we inhabit a body and how much that influences our emotional and intellectual lives along this journey. Her poems explore anticipated loss and sudden catastrophe wrapped in the undeniable instinct of seeking home. They provide us with a keen vision of the literal and metaphorical migrant experience. Migration, movement, and transformation happen for many reasons. Sometimes it is violent, other times it is philosophical--maybe it is the search for a dream or a better life--and sometimes it is just for the sake of change. We find all of these reasons and more within this fascinating chapbook that searches relentlessly, whether empathetically or in the not-always-safe haven of detachment, for homecoming.

Point A to Point B

Chen, Michelle

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Flesh Enough

some other wet landscape

Tell Me Something Good

Point A to Point B