Monster Galaxy

Cindy Veach's Monster Galaxy is a beautiful collection buzzing with memory monsters, tender girlhood, haunting grief, and startling selves. These poems are viscerally felt, with images that linger in vivid synesthesia: "They spit stars in my face when I open their shells." Woven with vulnerability, Veach's poems move through haibuns, self-portraits, myths, and epistolaries, asking us to look under our beds for the monsters and burying beetles within and around us.

-Jane Wong, author of How ...