both entertaining and deeply serious
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with a keel-hauling of Dundee Doldrums for its climax – poems which resist any stasis of the imagination
The lives of others also feature throughout
and though they read as though they draw intensely on her own life
We The Parasites by A. V. Marraccini J. O. Morgan both entertaining and deeply seriousIn her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of histories and myths from classical antiquity, We the Parasites both tells a strange love story and makes a slantwise argument about reading with the body, and what it ultimately means to know, and to