Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Een witte suite from the thin concrete pillars

from the thin concrete pillars of a flyover to an elderly peacock’s broken train

readers will experience Alben’s unorthodox alter-ego-thinking-out-louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz

all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text

representing his entire career

Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Een witte suite from the thin concrete pillarsSawako Nakayasu In Sawako Nakayasus Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of girls is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in response to Nakayasus 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing conventions,