Debut collection from Maryan Nagy Captan.Maryan Captan's copy/body creates for me a reading space that feels & thinks like the moments just upon waking- when the mind is still colored around the edges with the fantastic & strange details of dreaming- & the day, with its work-hours & plans & errands & practicality, has not yet intruded. There is an acuity of thought in those waking moments that these poems embody with depth & angles & 'bending inexplicable' articulations. Captan writes: 'carefully / the tender / begins / to pull.' The tender & the care & the pull all remain with me in equal measure.- Pattie McCarthy, author of Nulls and Quiet Book