Surprise me. That's what I want from poetry, and in her nuanced, beautifully cerebral debut, Thea Brown delivers a poetics rife with grammatical slippage and shifting rhetorics, a language whose revelatory linguistic possibilities awaken the page. -Alice Fulton To "think of the danger" does little to dissuade its arrival-especially when, as in Thea Brown's probing debut, thinking may be the danger itself. -Dan Beachy-Quick