Suspend

Taking place within a lunar month and likewise within a menstrual cycle Suspend is deeply concerned with pregnancy sexual desire self and self-doubled and doubling. In this collection of poems fragments prose askew children's verse and insomniac's jottings Kuhl privileges the difficult inquiry of the whole book over the jewel-like quality of her finished verse. The work often feels manic written down as quickly as the unconscious gives its fragments of memories connected to an insomniac's roving/raving mind; then in extraordinary counterpoint the poems assemble the urgent fractures of the diary-like notes into verse of remarkable formal beauty and integrity. -Dan Beachy-Quick