2023 Winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award

Through loneliness, through warfare, both past and present, through our experience with COVID-19, the NRA, a history of implicit racism, marriage and queer and childless domesticity, these poems enact the ways in which we may or may not inhabit a unified self provided by our linguistic and cultural modes of explanation or normalization, no matter how domestic and suddenly mainstream our lives have become – though still occurring within bell hooks's description of a "white-supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy." Poetry chronicles the quirks in perception and experience, and this book occurs against this backdrop of fragments and history—how life and poetry so often announce themselves.