“It’s just a picture, Bryant says, not a baby. But it is the form of our baby, his precise…

This is the poetry of scatological exhaustion; it is scatological-categorical. It is going too far,…

“This habit of reading,” Frym observes, “is a form of protectionism, a kind of amulet to counter…

"I have swallowed myself in birthing and am / utterly alone"

Until we reckon with both of these realities we remain wrapped-up in a false idea of ourselves.…