The second collection of poetry by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, published by Rescue Press, 2021.

Cover artwork uses ‘A Sleep Supreme’ (2018) Acrylic and Ink on canvas 36x48 inches (private collection), from a series of paintings and light boxes called ‘The Guiding Dark’ by Misha Tyutyunik.

Powerful, elegant, lush, disorienting, philosophical, honest and cutting, full of life, clarity, energy, vulnerability and beauty. These are some of the terms that come to mind when I think of Vanessa Jimenez Gabb's vibrant new book. Here is a poetics of labor, history, brokenness, money, solidarity, ecology. Here is a book that thinks and loves deeply in order to survive the infinite collapse of the system. DANIEL BORZUTZKY