Advance praise for Apertures of Voluptuous Force: Sam Barbee opens a portal on a world in tumult, storms inside and out, and invites us to "pet my feral dread." Observation of daily life call forth a maximalist esthetic, a riot in language, images detonating against each other. In poetry of paradox and opposition, Barbee seeks the balm of nature, but finds it lurking only at the edges of devastation, like a lone crayfish at...
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