A Reaction to Someone Coming In POETRY the book is at once

the book is at once a powerful outcry to fellow artists for international solidarity of the colonized and outcast and a documentation of the pain and struggle of exile

Once hailed as the “Rimbaud of the Maghreb

sensuous and funny

unapologetic

A Reaction to Someone Coming In POETRY the book is at onceWendy Lotterman 'Wendy Lotterman is a scientist of feeling, here presenting discoveries with surgical precision. If it's true that "no good thing can be saved from a three legged relay with the bad," then what forms the third leg? Maybe it's these cool, discomfiting lines, which invent a canny language for a "weird, denuded universe" where "the event postdates the mood it turned into." The lyric mode of A Reaction to Someone Coming In is intimate like