Cage of Eden

These compelling proudly youthful poems directly and indirectly ask some of the basic urgent questions of our moment: how to dwell for real with the damaged and gorgeous Earth; how to be with each other in our toxic Now; how to live and love as contaminated beings with no truly reasonable expectation of an enduring future for our troubled civilization. -Anthony McCann author of Thing Music (Wave Books 2014) I ? Your Fate (Wave Books 2011) Moongarden (Wave Books 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books 2003).Cori Bratby-Rudd's Cage of Eden is a beautiful testament to the chapbook form. Here Bratby-Rudd's poems are elegant beguiling almost brutally thoughtful-yet touch and indicate question and trail away leaving silences and vacancies for readers to populate with contemplations realizations and queernesses of their own. -Ryka Aoki author of Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul He Mele A Hilo and Seasonal Velocities.