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Both reverent and daring, this collection of verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to action, the collection pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty-first-century migrant story.

Andrew Colarusso hybridizes lost and unknown spaces, taking his title from a falconry term for the cord used to restrain a bird. Poems of personal narrative and metaphorical depth speak for the voices searching the parts that occupy the whispers of wanting, the dreams of finally being seen.

Thiahera Nurse's Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil' Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape of Nurse's poetry functions equally as underworld and imagined heaven.