A Barer SkySerena Solins first full length collection pulls from the pre individual realm of birth and infancy, the collectivity into which we grow, and the narrow pathway in between. Drawing on sources from Dostoyevsky to Boyz n the Hood, Emerson to Olson, the Puritans to Honda Civics, Solins poems and essays ask what it means to write in a world of lush and violent textuality. 'A Barer Sky offers an astonishingly coherent analysis of the cracks and fissures

boundaries and their transgression

"Land in Saskatchewan

We laten onszelf achter

contrasting against the harsh reality of exile

sound patterning

It’s heroic

Adam Feinstein

part guilt

Das Puke Book is a small chapbook self-published by Martin Wong in 1977

basing this opinion on my exploration of this one writer

Ze lopen er snuffelstage en halen er kliko’s omver

and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s--so much of which still resonates today