Description: The debut poetry collection of Guggenheim Fellow Corey Van Landingham.
Review Quotes: "In this debut collection, Van Landingham reinvents and refigures surrealism, which has always been one of the many fashions worn on the flamboyant runway of American poetry. I think of Dickinson's white dress and 'White Heat' in the presence of these poems, so formally various, too street smart to promenade the avenues without irony, but unabashedly emotive, no makeup. The book is haunted. The poet converses with her dead father and with former lovers, and discovers there is no antidote against any of it. In the penultimate poem, Van Landingham says, 'wild is a process / that has to be learned.' I don't know where she has learned such wildness, but she has learned it well." --Donald Platt