Maggie Nelson pushed this to the limit, and then she blew right past it. This little book is part prose, part poetry, part true crime, part diary. Part elegy, part conversation between the living and the dead. It’s genre-busting and it goes beyond what I thought poetry could do. It’s pain finding a way to find a form, and it spoke right to my senses.

A strong four and a half stars that I’m deciding to round up because I hate poetry and I think this made me like it.

Also, if you like this, check out Claudia Rankine’s [b:Citizen: An American Lyric|20613761|Citizen An American Lyric|Claudia Rankine|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1420944502l/20613761._SX50_.jpg|39895091].