The Little Book of No Consolation

Poetry. "'How strange it is to live in these bodies /and pretend we are not judged,' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of terror and possibility. With a fanciful Dictionary of Misremembered English and mistranslated phrases as her guide, she reimagines Biblical figures, governments, and language's very syntax. McKay spins her poems as though spinning plates, on a pole of syntax all her own, the gyroscopic effect dazzling."--Denise Duhamel