Clayton Adam Clark
Auscultate
Galileo Press, 2025
$16.42
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To auscultate is to listen to the sounds of the heart and other parts of the body for the purpose of better understanding what’s going on in there. And so in this collection, I've sought to investigate the body in many of its forms, in addition to the intersections where these bodies connect (or don’t quite), while also seeking to understand the way environment influences those bodies and their (dis)connections.
Poems read:
“Self-portrait With Leap-second Vigil"
“Buzzing Beneath the Leaves" “Leeches"
“Tornado Season"
David Greenspan
Milk Sickness
Querencia Press, 2025
$14
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Somewhere between a fable and an exigence of language, Milk Sickness exists. The girl. It scurries. It prefers dirt. The girl holds. A story about a boy, a girl, their children, their children's ghosts, a city, a softer, gentler apocalypse. The girl holds a boxcutter. There are also knives. Milk Sickness speaks to, or at least toward and around, a world of climate catastrophe without mentioning the Anthropocene. The girl holds a boxcutter to the awful. Whatever sense there is to be found subsumes itself beneath the fever of the sentence. The girl holds a boxcutter to the awful throat.
Lesley Wheeler
Mycocosmic
Tupelo Press, 2025
$19.95
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“Good things come to you through fire,” a Tarot reader told Lesley Wheeler as she was composing what became her sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic. But how could that be true, while the planet was burning and life slamming her with one loss after another? Then she learned about pyrophilic fungi that lurk in soil until activated by fire. Enter mycelia and a teeming underground world that metabolizes death, changing what remains so that life can begin anew.
Poems read:
“We Could Be"
“Dark Energy"
“Return Path"