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Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness and culpability, destruction and nurturing, find their balances, not in an either/or, but in a melding? In an unapologetically feminist approach to these topics, Reeves explores the idea that "we are the only ones who name," and goes about teaching us the "alphabet of our unmaking."
"In Martha McCollough's Wolf Hat Iron Shoes, we witness a deeply observant and questioning mind guide a bright pointer across the planetarium of our current and pending disasters-from dystopia and pandemic to colliding galaxies. What's most affecting is the bravely undefended lyricism this poet deploys to scout an era in which "all the home-come chickens / weigh the branches into downward arcs." The solitary speaker into whose ruminations we enter in these impeccably paced poems makes measurable the weight felt by one individual "open to the sky / a humming / a glass dome[,]" and we recognize that burden as our own. -Steven Riel"
In an exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions.
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