Swoon

"Sensuality is a rarity to many chroniclers of the familiar, whereas here it's something you can have for the asking. Redel's is a poetry of gasped fragments in which people don't merely go for the gusto but are transformed by it. Redel's characters don't walk the line between appetite and everything else as much as they dash back and forth across it, warming pages so that readers who take up Swoon are likely to drop it from time to time and blow on their fingers as though they've grabbed a hot skillet."

"Redel is one of the most talented scary writers to come out of musty old Manhattan in the last few decades. She's a writer with her fists clenched so tightly that her palms must bleed, and when she opens her fists, suddenly, in front of the reader, powerful, hurtful truths come flying out."

[Praise for Loverboy, her previous volume]

Acknowledgments

Such Noises
Somewhere in the Glorious
And So I Went
Cabin Note
Damsels, I
No China
Swoon
Where We Fuck
Building the Church
Hallelujah Jam
Steerage
Pavane
This is the Dream of Margaret Meadows
Sail Well Like This, Hurry
Be So Kind
Stunt
Hot
Frontier
Marked
Another Cabin Note

Such Noises
The Palace of Weep
Boy Food Man
Strider
August
The Bounty
Bedecked
A Roving
Primary
Play
Wrong
Problem
Round
Bright Hill
Stop It
Where She Goes
The Jumper
It Is Sound We're After
Three Tweleve O'clocks in a Day

Such Noises
Altered Woman
International Woman
Intact Woman
Here Is Her Detailed List
Standing Woman
Tilted Woman
Prior Woman
Recorded Woman
Unnamed Woman
Cut Woman
Noisy Woman
Living Woman
The Vow

Notes