“Inventive substance and form… a rare experience of mysticism”

“Dale Kushner’s remarkable M transports us into the regions of the underworld and overworld where desire’s destructive and generative impulses cannot be suppressed. The inventive substance and form of these poems is startling, satisfying at all times: there are poems here of ‘mad prayer’ and of fabular horror/wonder and of stinging remembering and of outcry and of despairing questioning. M’s three sections, ‘Via Desiderio,’ ‘Via Dolorosa,’ and ‘Via Transformativa,’ build in intensity, offering a rare experience of mysticism. This book of poems is, to say it simply, absolutely original.”

—Kevin McIlvoy, One Kind Favor