INTIMATIONS by the wickedly talented Alexandra Kleeman, out 9/13. You'll want to move it to the top of your TBR pile, just trust me on this.

When we are broken-brained, we reread the first 40 pages of STATE OF GRACE to remember that language can make one want to live.

"Pretty Ice"

This book, like all of Chelsea Martin's work, is doing it for me in a big way.

"Yes I'll be fired glass where stray sand has been."

How's that for a tattoo?

"...not just fake, but evil"

Slowly working my way through all of Rachel Zucker's work. You can see throughout her love of Alice Notley; never derivative, lovely to behold. I'm especially interested in the ways she (like Alice) enlarges domesticity to show (an often difficult, fraught, fucked) texture.

I think with this book Lerner has opened up a space for a really interesting and important conversation to take place (to continue). And his analytic mode is so precise and exact, a marvel to watch as it processes, pushes, refutes, refuses.

Mary Robison needs to give us another fucking book.

Rachel Zucker is pretty great.

Not only is it a stunning text, full of the beautiful ricocheting of Galchen's mind, which is a treasure to watch at work on the page, it's also probably my favorite cover design of the year. Beautiful.

BEST MAIL DAY

Tony Duvert blowing my fucking mind/making me want to write "fuck" "yes" "exactly" in the margins, page by page

Digging this book of ricocheting thoughts from Rivka.

Alice Notley is a fucking master.

Unlike anything I've ever read. Captures the complications of grief like few writers have.