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
Author: Nanya Jhingran
One-Legged Bird
“The loneliness that drenches Burying the Mountain derives from rejection and alienation, but also from portent.” —Angelo Mao
The Plain Became My Hunger’s Home
“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
A Myth Against Empire
“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
Where the Sunflowers Have Pointed
“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
Embodied Placements
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
Fragments, Omissions & Further Reading
A Review of Susan Howe’s Concordance by Susan Stringfellow
All These Small Departures
On Angela Narciso Torres’s What Happens is Neither