Good Grief

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stevie Edwards' debut book of poetry Good Grief catalogues their elegantly-wrought misadventures as a freshly-graduated Michigan transplant stumbling over foal legs through Chicago and kneeling down to confront the wreckage of their skinned knees.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether stopping to disinter some small ruin of a secondhand-clothes childhood charting the reaches of their own privilege as a white person in Chicago or trying to recollect the reasoning behind last night's bar receipts Stevie's voice  - a treble equal parts angst and grace  - rumbles deep down in the belly of their poems and lingers.</span></p>