Reverse Rapture

Reverse RaptureBy Dara Barrois Dixon (ne Dara Wier) Description Reviews More (we were subterranean then) (it lasted a long time) (you wore a jacklight) (like a third eye) Reverse Rapture is an intimate epic of memory, hope, and questioning. A band of explorers sifts through the artifacts and sensations of our times, all the while listening to and taking care of one another. In awe of everything, they, and the poems that recount their adventures, create a gorgeous

Sonja James

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and whim “conducted/ without compromise

By Edwin Torres

critique and appreciation

than investing in the poem as a product itself

to the surface

Ben Purkert

Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one

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but I’d be hard pressed to summarize it

Joshua Beckman’s fourth collection consists of a book-length lyric sequence that roams from the personal to the social to the cosmic