Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions and the last section ("The

and the last section ("The Mind at Play") continues with a rich lyric and imagery often sung from a mystic sensibility

and more—as if the voice of this book has slipped the temporal bounds that tether most voices to a date in history

and erasures are like the clefts across which synapses fire

Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal and Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle

—Edward Smallfield

Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions and the last section ("TheJessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She declares early on that "My first kin were killers," people for whom "burnout was a luxury" they could not afford. Her speaker struggles through illness and sobriety and grappling with God as a problem she tries to solve as she finds her own calling. The poems are unflinchingly honest and impeccably crafted. They show us what it means to stay "flagrantly