loudest when startled

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>loudest when startled</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> luna rey hall's debut collection explore the ways in which gun violence has become part of the fundamental nature of relationships family and American masculinity-so much so that the bullet has been rendered benign just another news story just another obituary just another walk down the street. The poetry in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>loudest when startled</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> follows two brothers born into gun culture as they navigate their relationship to anger loss and guns in entirely different ways with different outcomes yet leaving us with a sense that we are all both predator and prey.</span></p>