4.8 "frantically, frenetically, flailing, ferociously" stars !!

Thank you to Netgalley, the poet and University of Pittsburgh Press for an ecopy. This will be released
October 2025. I am providing an honest review.

As a rule I read slowly, methodically, carefully. I could not with this collection. The poet simply would not allow this. The poems are all equally sharp, insightful, glaring. I rode the bicycle faster and faster but luckily it was downhill and the images, ideas, thoughts sailed on by. Young American womanhood in all its pain and beauty swept by and I was breathless. I was exhilarated but knew the cold Pacific Ocean awaited me and that I would land safely. Every poem a gem and in fact I read this not as a collection but as one long poem in one boisterous ride. Brava Ms. Egger !