tanyabc's review
5.0
This collection grew on me fairly quickly. I found this by way of Lambda and am so happy that I decided to try reading all of the winners this year. I just really loved Beyer's writing. She has a way with words and writes in a rhythm I could hear. I'm not usually super into environmental or political fiction / poetry, but her writing is so good. It felt like the collection was about where we are in this moment, where we have been (lots of ancestral stuff) and where we could be going. Realistically disappointed and frustrated, but also hopeful enough to keep me going. I sped through this collection because I really loved it, but I also felt like I could have spent an entire day thinking about each line. I'm excited to buy a copy of my own and re-read more slowly many times.Â
ostrowk's review
From her first "Tanka for What Comes Together," Beyer writes, "We emerge / from sleep singular— / and then find each other. And that / is the best way of waking." Read for the "experiments in revolution," the tender and fierce rendering of the world as it is and as it should be.
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