2020 Whiting Award Winning Debut
Ugly Music is an account of observation and dissociation, the danger of simultaneously being inside and outside the experiences that mold a life. Ugly Music emerges as a story of witness, a realization that even the strangest things exist on earth and deserve to live.
Out Now from Copper Canyon Press
Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths—a stepfather’s abusive touch, a mother’s “soft harm”—the speaker’s anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows.