In The Belly of the Albatross Irreverant

Irreverant

These figures posed and given back to the ocean are akin to previous and developing selves—selves attuning to the boundarylessness of outer and inner

The wonderfully observational poems in Kevin Casey’s American Lotus remind us how separate we are from the natural world

Molly Peacock

curious heart

In The Belly of the Albatross IrreverantIn these moving poems, many of them dramatic monologues spoken by women, Patricia Caspers conjures up the lives of historical individuals a black slave midwife who "[gives] Justice her dowry," Amelia Earhart's mother, waiting hopefully for her daughter's return. And she reimagines the figures of Greek and Hebrew legend the Gorgon who begs for "the gift of monstrosity," the biblical Ruth, revealing a sensuality the Bible does not allow her. She also