Tablets: Secrets of the Clay Clark Coolidge of consuming love

of consuming love

to the way our own deaths are snug inside our lives

and open as our continent itself

a radically new and resilient voice emerges — an Outgoing Vessel — from an all-consuming darkness: “INSIDE ME THERE IS A NONDEGRADABLE ORB / MY OWN PLANET”

Ceremonies—named one of the 25 most influential works of postwar queer literature by the New York Times—alongside rarely seen poems from magazines and chapbooks

Tablets: Secrets of the Clay Clark Coolidge of consuming loveDunya Mikhail A bullet then a siren then ruins then a bird song telling the truth Dunya Mikhail In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the worlds first symbolsSumerian glyphs that were carved into clay tabletsinto the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to