Earwig Country by Angela Topping Alex Stevens Gallagher claims many Wests –

Gallagher claims many Wests – the Northwest of America

Poemhood will simultaneously highlight the duality and nuance at the crux of so many Black experiences with poetry being the psalm constantly playing

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” The point is not the picture but the frame and its surround

Earwig Country by Angela Topping Alex Stevens Gallagher claims many Wests –"Beautiful things have inner horrors I learned to be wary of." This collection balances darkness with light: the beauty of the flower, the earwig within. Themes of mental health and memory are played out against the superstition that earwigs can burrow in through the ear and eat the brain. The German word ohrworm means earworm: something replaying in the mind. Another theme is the mortality of the human body. Nature struggles, yet its beauty still