Normal Distance

"These poems collect strange facts, interrogate language, and ask unanswerable questions that offer the pleasure of discovery on nearly every page. How does one suffer 'gladly,' exactly? How bored are dogs? Which is more frightening, nothing or empty space? Was Wittgenstein sexy? With her ... observations building to ... quotable one-liners, the poems in this collection have an aphoristic, ear-wormy quality to them that's both ultra-contemporary and offers a reading experience that is at once essayistic, aphoristic, and philosophical"