All of This Was Once Under Water

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All of This Was Once Under Water</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Natalie Padilla Young conjures a physical and metaphysical universe in which the history of the Great Salt Lake and the struggles of her Mormon ancestors intertwine. Narratives of suffering phantasmagorical legend environmental threat science faith love and gender fluidity unspool in language as pristine and biting as salt. A great imagination is at work in these poems as Young probes the enmeshed lives of an alien a lone human She and a mythic monster in startling diction and syntax and haunting imagery.  - Teresa Cader </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>History of Hurricanes The Paper Wasp Guests</em></p>