Quicksand/Stargazing

These poems engage with what it means to be an authentic human-animal: to be endangered and empowered at once to be harsh and golden and brave to compassionately inhabit the complex space between the poles of this collections title. Quicksand/Stargazing amazes me with its range of forms and shapes all woven through with a voice that is ecstatic urgent tender and unflinching. This voice insists that it is still possible to seriously honestly unironically believe in love. I am not embarrassed by most things proclaims Remi Recchia and how lucky that makes the readers of this brilliant and necessary book.F. Daniel Rzicznek Nag Champa in the Rain