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An essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal's history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations, plowed the fields that fed generations, and carted soldiers and weapons from war to war. The poems undo the brunt end of every lewd joke and unearth the sacred origins of a creature we rarely consider except as melancholy cartoon or dumb, stubborn brute. In these twenty-five linked pieces, a truth ...

Nickole Brown writes in a voice that is simultaneously vernacular and lyrical. It is a voice thick with the humidity and whirring cicadas of Kentucky, but the poems are dangerous, smelling of the crisp cucumber scent of a copperhead about to strike. Epistolary in nature, and with a novel's arc, Sister is a story that begins with a teen giving birth to a baby girl-the narrator-during a tornado, and in some ways, that tornado never ends.In the h...

Nickole Brown's first book opens with the dramatic declarative, "Sister, " which begins the book's machinations of understanding the complex and fraught relationships between siblings and family. Brown writes in the first poem titled "Preface, " Sister, we come from water we made ourselves with the suckle and swallow of our unmade bodies submerged in a sac so sweet with our vestal piss that we breathed it From the cruelty of the narrator relea...