"In this diptych of poems, Stacy Szymaszek constructs a multiplicity of selves and desires in language that bends, stimulates, disorients, and satisfies, giving free reign to obsessions over identity, queerness, the broad landscape of corporeality that makes these obsessions possible, and with death--in particular, social death. A Reagan-era childhood looms in the "permission to have a story / denied." Szymaszek's "story" is a collectivity of narratives overlooked, rejected, and untold--a series of snapshots and moments, skirting linearity, bubbling beneath the surface."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 November 6).