melt by Sarah Hymas Robert Fitterman It sounds out the complex

It sounds out the complex and ambivalent terrain of early motherhood – its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love – reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life

Does Flick belong to the past or to the future

’— John Sibley Williams‘These poems will break your heart but leave you feeling uplifted

Deborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University

melt by Sarah Hymas Robert Fitterman It sounds out the complexmelt, structurally influenced by the poets work as an artistbook maker, enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen, and seemingly remote. Here, Hymas creates a poetic space of ocean as an assemblage of animal, plant, plastic, mineral, technology, human and more, a book that reaches for an ecological mutuality, a reorientation of that which appears distant into a poetic proximity. And just as there is no one way to read the sea, there is no