Tierney’s work is a poetics of fracture. It is intensely interested in the elegiac, many of the poems referencing the deaths of close relatives, yet makes space to honor that impulse while still firmly rooting itself in the living world; ergo, his poetry by design fractures in the divide between the two poles and searches for balance…

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Dasbach not only writes beautifully about what could be called navel-gazing, an outdated term that has been often used to minimize the contributions of women and marginalized communities in literature, but she takes you directly to the brutal, bloody umbilical cord of that navel.

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