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I am trying to make myself / a thrum of votive light, " Michael Mlekoday writes in All Earthly Bodies. "I am trying to let the planet / rename me." Through a kind of lyric dreamwork, Mlekoday sounds the depths-of ancestry and identity, race and gender, earth and self-to track the unbecoming and re-membering of the body"--

This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written with a gun to his head or a spike through his heart. Reading it is like opening a damp newspaper wrapped around a big fish just caught, fins glistening, scales shining, one rhymed eye open and looking right at you, daring you to eat the whole thing.” - Dorianne Laux, author of The Book of Men