Love as Invasive Species

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Shame has kept so many women's stories silenced with a cultural lineage of lack that asks women to give up their own desire while simultaneously performing cultural expectations of desire for others. Part excavation part interrogation and part subsequent untethering from this inheritance the poems in Ellen Kombiyil's magisterial</span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Love as Invasive Species </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>recognize that gender class capitalism and legislation compound these issues that have stalked women for generations. </span></p>