cost of living

<p class=ql-align-justify>From gleaning to toothaches across anxieties and economic precarity Womer writes with gorgeous attention to language and to sound creating a book quivering with insights. I loved this book.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-TaraShea Nesbit</strong> author of <em>Beheld</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Brenna Womer's <em>cost of living</em> is meditative subtle and moving; it bursts with surprising and dynamic language that circles familial histories complex intimacies class memory and origin. Deeply intimate and carefully observed Womer's writing reveals the expansive possibilities of both poetry and prose.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-K-Ming Chang</strong> author of <em>Bestiary</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Budgeting for Sensodyne while finding no place yet to sell a memory the narrator in Brenna Womer's hybrid collection <em>cost of living</em> knows both the heavy expense of connection and the ache of paying for one's place in the world. The weight of expectations press into the grit of love leaving behind indelible scratches. Womer's work will leave you similarly marked.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Kristine Langley Mahler</strong> author of <em>Curing Season</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>