I Had to Clear my Throat
“Speaking these poems out loud, you will hear the sounds that Simmonds was able to put on the page, the way songs move with their own time, and how they push our bodies to inhabit that time.” — Mark Spero
“Speaking these poems out loud, you will hear the sounds that Simmonds was able to put on the page, the way songs move with their own time, and how they push our bodies to inhabit that time.” — Mark Spero
“The loneliness that drenches Burying the Mountain derives from rejection and alienation, but also from portent.” —Angelo Mao
“The body and the land mirror each other in their growth and development, in their ability to be beautifully reset and be born from last year’s ‘undue shrubbery.'” – Cass Garison
“H of H Playbook is a submission to our collective conscience, a treatise against empire, and a reminder that there is no myth nor story that can replace actual, material human experience.” – Dujie Tahat
“Each of these books carries with it this breath of endurance — that life is spectacularly painful, and each day our choices work toward some method of minimizing this pain.” – Cody Stetzel
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
A Review of Susan Howe’s Concordance by Susan Stringfellow
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