Suede Mantis / Soft RageJennifer Soong Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soongs Suede Mantis Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of cruel desperation, in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion thats made

Following their book Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry)

rondgefietst / door wie eens

WITCH is a strange

als de zee

She has lived mostly in the US and Japan

As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette Mayer

crafted from hamantaschen

in the textual body of all those enduring charms upon which Stacy Doris lays new & resounding claim

In her highly anticipated debut collection

Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot

gender and sexuality

These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception