We Are Mermaids: Poems

Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, “perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say” (Boston Review)

Stephanie Burt’s poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to exist. Frozen isn’t simply another Disney animated musical but “the Most Trans Movie Ever.” Mermai...