"luna rey hall's elegy for [lukas] is like watching a wave gather power, but close-up: fragmentary, lyric, narrative, and always human, these poems rise and fall and carry us along. How wonderful to be held by something much greater than ourselves!"

-Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry

"My favorite poems are the ones in which I am permitted my own radiance. luna rey hall's elegy for [lukas] is filled with poems that allow my radiance and allow, too, the radiance of all the queers who find their way to this gorgeous work. hall writes 'there is a universe where i am... there is a universe where I am...' and we are so lucky it's this one."

-Kayleb Rae Candrilli, author of Winter of Worship

"With a deft balance of devastation and beauty which is quickly becoming their signature, luna rey hall has crafted a wildly expansive, sometimes wrenching and ultimately moving elegy to a once-lived-in self, put to rest so the truth can live. Even in its brevity, this collection builds worlds of possibility-zombie apocalypses and trans extinction scenarios, multiverses of motherhood-and perhaps most extraordinary of all, a fully embodied life in all its wild and prosaic wonder, where 'a body walks into a bar/ &/ I'm starting to recognize it.' elegy for [lukas] is a tenderly wrought collection that is not to be missed."

-Jihyun Yun, author of And the River Drags Her Down