Comic Timing by Holly Pester
PBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Keiran Goddard and from the stimulus of

and from the stimulus of the other’s poem arriving in the e-mail in-tray

Patricia Smith reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms

an unworldly interior that is ‘ruthless and summoned’

and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years

Comic Timing by Holly Pester <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Spring 2021</b> Keiran Goddard and from the stimulus ofPBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our