Mysteries of Small Houses Elisa Gonzalez Asiya Wadud’s poems engage in

Asiya Wadud’s poems engage in this act

to ask ‘what about the self / the poem’s dirty secret

no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality

the author's first collection (2018)

in text and image

Mysteries of Small Houses Elisa Gonzalez Asiya Wadud’s poems engage inAlice Notley Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the eras