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Teaches of Peaches by Diane Exavier"My father did not choose my mother," Diane Exavier writes early on in Teaches of Peaches. "He chose his condition and thought he could take care of both. He was wrong." Exavier's Teaches of Peaches is an elegy wrapped in an anti elegy. It resists category and traditional form with a formidable nod toward hybrid. But unlike many hybrid collections, which work to show us idea through form and its faceted subversions, Teaches of Peaches presents form

Navigating both scripture and culture

while a Divinity student at Harvard

display a universality that transcends both race and color without ever denying them

and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements

yet somehow the dancer isn't there

a serene cemetery of ancestral plots

Oberman weaves in passages from his own deceased father’s unpublished memoir to engage with the mysterious drowning of his eldest brother

Ang's poems offer a rambunctious howl against abstracting any body: human

and—in a word—frank

Through the lens of her late mother's wisdom

Smith turns to honesty

His poems have been praised by many critics for their momentum