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In Lannie Stabile's latest collection of poetry, The Inconvenience of Grief, we find a writer who has comeinto her own. Stabile builds upon the themes previously explored in her chapbooks, Little MasticatedDarlings, Strange Furniture, and Hi Lonely, I'm Dad - family, intergenerational trauma, poverty, abuse,and loss - and brings a new perspective and maturity to her craft. Now with a family of her own andreeling from the death of her mother, we find an evolution from (understandable) anger,resentment & blame to something more tender, more vulnerable, more forgiving. The scope of thiscollection is immense & complex and asks the reader to reimagine the definition and nature of grief.

'Rupture and Repair' is a poetry collection that explores memory and belonging, intrinsically linked with the optimism & the wisdom of nature. Taylor's immediacy provides a timely reminder of what it is to be alive, and to be surrounded by the hope filled continuum of the natural world.

Paolo Bicchieri's debut poetry collection, Familial Animals, is both haunted and haunting. Haunted by the ghosts of intergenerational trauma, sexual abuse, alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness... these poems search for ways to keep body and soul intact. The speaker is always in motion, both literally and metaphorically, and leads the reader through deceptively familiar landscapes all the while reminding us that nothing is at it seems: danger lurks behind every word. The language of Bicchieri's poetry is almost mystical in nature and transcends the horrors of an ugly reality with a nod to magical realism. so I'm eating a breakfast of black beans and tortillas when the world stops turning/when the street cracks open/when the wind stills and the blackberries burst/the sun is sheer like xacto... Central to this collection is the exploration of an eating disorder in the context of hauntings. What better way to exorcise ghosts than to become a ghost yourself? If a person becomes small enough, then they can hide from the monsters waiting in the front yard, in the bedroom, in the garden, in the car, just over the horizon. The transformational nature of the poems in this collection also means that Bicchieri's own words become the key out of the locked room into something that might be hope and is certainly redemption.