night myths • • before the body by abi pollokoff

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night myths • • before the body by abi pollokoffWhat are the stories we tell our bodies about our bodies? What are the myths we tell ourselves about ourselves? night myths before the body illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation. By dissolving the boundaries between the body and the natural world, Abi Pollokoffs evocative debut deconstructs the essence of womanhood,

or queer) in contemporary America

and formally ingenious

The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry

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Discipline (Nightboat Books

They detail a life in movement—across distances

They connect themes of loneliness

Adam Walking the Garden and Sleepwalks (Red Dragonfly Press)

A central concern is figuring out how to live an authentic life or have real intimacy in a world that rapaciously wants to name

and—in a word—frank

but still inexorably drawn to the possibility of redemption and recovered purity: “Clean now