Are You There

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Are You There</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Indiana poet Samantha Fain refracts contemporary melancholia into iridescent lyricism. Fain delights in breaking rules the serendipity of autocorrect incantations testing how far in space and time a connection will travel and where it ends-quoting sources including Schrödinger Ask Jeeves and Kim Kardashian. In Fain's haunting poetics grief mania pop culture faith quantum physics and digital relationships collide alive with the spiky humour of brutal self-awareness aglow with startling new language. </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>These poems are like Neosporin; they sting and they heal. Raphael Bob-Waksberg Creator of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Bojack Horseman</em></p>