The Body You're In

Bok av Phoebe Wagner
Phoebe Wagner?s poetry is a kind of undressing. Offering up the social and sexual uncertainties of our time, she forges these into a bolder understanding of contemporary angst. Language heady as Plath melts into a precise, Carson-like wit. Wagner?s voice is a reflexive one, referencing therapists, care plans, bingo tickets, pick-up lines, familial myths: ?Abuela knew I was the devil when I came out like that. / That all of Spain had bled out of me.? Formally inventive, highly visual, these poems ripple through the mind, at once cleansing and intoxicating.