The Trees The Trees by Heather Christle Bloodaxe is drawn to seeing what

is drawn to seeing what happens when beauty is turned on its side

The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality

the poems in Shara McCallum's Madwoman are also transformative

Deborah Alma's debut Dirty Laundry

The Trees The Trees by Heather Christle Bloodaxe is drawn to seeing what'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awake' Mark Doty In The Trees The Trees, each new line is a sharp turn toward joy and heartbreak, and each poem unfolds like a bat through the wild meaninglessness of the world. 'At least once per poem, you feel like the triple bars just lined up in the slot