atrophy

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>On the heels of her memoir </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>FEVER</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Niziolek's debut poetry collection </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>atrophy</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> continues pulling even further at the same threads: desire grief trauma love and illness. However the primary beast that stalks these pages is the body in isolation the body in decay the body as animalistic and wounded and deadly in its pursuit of living. a</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>trophy</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> has all the promise of a young poet and all the grit of a grown woman who has repeatedly clawed her way through the dirt. </span></p>