Third-Millennium HeartUrsula Andkjaer Olsen, translation Katrine gaard Jensen With black humor and cutting logic, Third Millennium Heart explores the confounding nature of power and desire, the problem of asserting a feminist alternative without recapitulating patriarchal power structures: The goal is to weaken every trace of odor. It will cost me my victory scent. Yet Olsens ambivalence entails an embryonic potential: uncoupled from all normative arrivals, her syntax

The Speak Angel Series took years to accomplish but is finally ready

and makes the case for hope in the midst of a disintegrating present

and structural rigor

'Burnt Norton'

Herman Leenders

Jasmine Gibson's poems are a surrealist playlist drawn from the mystic and the viscerally real

and the realities they impose upon the imagination

Laforgue is part-symbolist

Working across prose and poetry—sometimes

And that reality is

leerkracht

these poems—their subjects and their logics—refuse to stay put within a single category