Bright Dead Things: Poems Sònia Albert Especially when Potato and Flamingo

Especially when Potato and Flamingo are asking her to hula hoop or play superheroes

full of lyricism

and Gabby Rivera

you’ll see how changing your own “autopilot reactions” can create a lasting positive impact

as a world war came and went and the Berlin Wall arose just a stone’s throw from the back door

Bright Dead Things: Poems Sònia Albert Especially when Potato and FlamingoFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is disorderly, and marvelous, and ours. A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and