I thoroughly enjoyed this collection. Gilmore’s writing has an effortless flow to it & not a single piece felt deprived of that.

The language in some verses warranted instant highlighting. “underfed synchronicity” being the standout very early on. There’s some really great visuals as well.

My personal favorites from the collection were Safe Camp, Doubtful, and Ocean of bleeding sparks. Though I did book mark many more.

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Thank you Netgalley, Fonograf Editions, and Sara Gilmore for sending me this advanced review copy for free. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I really enjoyed this collection of poems. Though at first it took me a while to connect with the author’s vision, when I did I found a lot of relief. It is always good to see people raise ul their voices for the marginalized.

The collection's voice finds "joy in paradoxes," not as intellectual exercises but as generative spaces where "felt sense can expand." Gilmore employs juxtaposition as her primary technique, placing the mundane ("a thousand miles of strip malls") alongside the elemental ("air filling with dust, glitter, and sulfur") to create a disorienting landscape where boundaries between natural and artificial dissolve.