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In these poems words are a scalpel that probes the shifting sands of meaning. Themes of identity communication love loss and isolation are peeled pack to reveal with devastating precision both the deficiencies and the power of language: words that can heal or save; words that paralyse and attack. The poet uses her instrument - language - both to celebrate and to question whether words can ever be a true medium to define express identity communicate. With an unflinching gaze and an originality we have already come to know in Anamaria Crowe Serrano''s work she both exalts and undermines patterns and form in a way that surprises provokes and exhilarates. -Elizabeth McSkeane