Between Us Girls

The poetry collection that you hold in your hands offers a controversial thesis: Not only is it utterly impossible for a person to change, grow, and evolve through intellectual pursuit alone, but so is any attempt to understand the world solely through reason-by definition-doomed. That is, unless we, forcefully and joyfully, dethrone the privilege of the æsthetic over the ethical and begin the lovely violence of inscribing our I, our eyen onto each struggle's facet.

And struggle she does, th...