“Language rich with gorgeousness… one could bathe all day in the deliciousness of this book”

“From Eve to Mary Magdalene and through all her configurations, Dale Kushner’s M pulls us through the horrors of history in language rich with gorgeousness where ‘ugliness is a city of miserable thought’ and ‘even the forsythia wears a yellow star.’ Of personal loss and pain, the usual tropes of the poet, she flings us the ‘looping brain / trapped in its cycle of desperate / repair’ to save us. Never mind Adam and the latest Hollywood hunk, here we have the true poet’s real paramour: language. One could bathe all day in the deliciousness of this book.”

—Alice Friman, Blood Weather