Description: A woman leaps from the Empire State Building but falls only a single floor before she is blown back inside. So begins Christina Olson's second collection of poetry, a rollicking, richly imagined mosaic that pits science, history, and fate against one another in an attempt to answer the bedeviling questions of cause and effect.
Brief description: Christina Olson is the author of the collection Before I Came Home Naked (Ankylosaurus Press, 2012) and the chapbooks Weird Science (Paper Nautilus, 2016) and Rook & The M.E. (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2015). Her poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Arts & Letters, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Brevity, River Styx, Gulf Coast, Passages North, The Normal School, Hayden's Ferry Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3. She teaches creative writing at Georgia Southern University.
Review Quotes:
"Miraculously, in Olson's impossibly wonderful world, the boundaries between the internal and external are ever-revised, and we lucky readers wander this landscape wherein every blessed romantic thing gets refurbished, and stumbles around, bemused, beating with an urgent, exhilarating, and altogether new vitality."
- Matthew Gavin Frank, author of The Mad Feast and Preparing the Ghost
"Thank the stars in our modern, satellite-pocked heavens for Christina Olson's poems, and the chills they give us as we contemplate what comforts are left."
- Keetje Kuipers, author of Beautiful in the Mouth and The Keys to the Jail