"With the cool precision of Joan Didion and the smoky lyricism of Renata Adler, Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought (Diagram Press, 2023) is a scintillating collection of production diaries, script marginalia, and short auto-fictions that probe motherhood, filmmaking, and ways of seeing with ardent acumen. What does it mean, On Second Thought asks, to understand a narrative? To figure out the innate connection between two seemingly disparate ideas or things?"

"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."

"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."

"The space between waking and dreaming presents a brief opening of possibility and is the same space we enter and move through in..."

"parses the language and acts of love and sex, trauma and violence, with the stark, plainspoken language of a desert, seared..."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "These poems pulse with ardor, expectation, and the possibility of touch’s physical and affective potential."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "organizes itself in four sections, Shorts, Shirts, Skorts, and Skirts, where the body becomes cloth or flame..."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I read Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass three months after my last heartbreak."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Vi Khi Nao’s sixteenth book Fish Carcass (2022) is a poetic Petri dish of lived experience."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I don’t remember the first touch or the first comment when I was a girl that conjured me as a woman."

Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Here’s a slim confession: I have asked the last two men I loved to spit in my mouth, and neither one obliged."