i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)

Leia Penina Wilson’s <i>i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)</i> is at once a love ballad and a warning. These poems are—at their simplest—about relationships sex love creatures different kinds (and degrees) of violence and—at their most complex—about the limits of the imagination of language and about the power the imagination has over the body. These poems confront the shifty line between human and animal and urge the question: at what cost the body. Wilson’s animal-human doesn’t intend to answer that question; instead she lunges towards it and tears it up and begins again and again and again.