Deceptive but alluring blends of sound and song, traditional lullabies promise the deepest sense of intimacy alongside a chilling sense of dread. (review by Sara R. Burnett)
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The poems themselves are a genuine treat to read, as well as the mysterious, half-finished biography lurking beneath…
(review by Matt Martinson)
“The Flowers Along the Way testifies to the healing power of hope, showing how nurturing a garden, or a story, can generate something fresh and green out of loss.” (review by Liz Rios Hall)
“It’s a lot more entertaining to hear a dolphin tell a manchild to ‘grow up’ than to hear the same advice coming from a psychiatrist.”
(review by Chloe Lutts Jensen)
An underreported story of the lived experience of children of political activists who embrace violence as a tool of resistance. (review by Karen Paley)
Mule Boy unfolds as a single, sustained utterance—a life in one long sentence—and in doing so invites the reader into an intimacy that feels both confessional and liturgical.
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The title comes from Margaret Atwood’s poem “You Fit Into Me,” a borrowed line that helps Gaudry translate her own feelings. The phrase “fit into me” can act as both a plea and a demand, asking us to place ourselves inside the characters—but borrowed language can also act like a mirror, reflecting our own experiences back at us rather than revealing hers.
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The often pitch-perfect language captures the absurdity of the way we live now and renders it hilarious: “I fought a monster and defeated it. I did that. But what do you do with that? It’s not something I can post about on Facebook. I mean, my mom would see that.”
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The collection’s opening salvo asserts this tension in a whiplash, maximalist mad dash. Stories steer their readership past one visceral image after another: burnt oil engines, boiled feet, metallic screams, and fast food mutilations.
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The book takes a historical view of global conflicts — namely World War II and the Cold War — and Lamantia’s reactions against the imperial war machine, both in the United States and within globalized systems, emerge as a precursor to the apocalyptic themes often present in Western poetry.
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