Bugbear

Author: Katy Lewis Hood

Publisher: Veer Books (2021)

"Katy Lewis Hood lifts the stone to shine a light on hidden life-forms and their rhythms. Carefully tuned images recollect both the extravagantly blooming and tightly ‘gridspritz'-ed world of flora and fauna: molting, ‘dream-faring', sharing a ‘deliquescent blip’. Apprehended, too, are the ‘grain knot wounds’, the indelible costs of our industrialized existence. Here are poems that relish in syllabaries and that quietly stun you with their sonic effervescences. Bugbear is a singular and astonishing work."

—Lila Matsumoto