Wet Dream

By Erin Robinsong,

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Winner 2023 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

Wet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these poems metabolize toxic logics and traverse enmeshed ecologies through the wetness that connects. A pulse of…

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I do not read a lot of poetry, but I picked up this book thinking I'd riffle through it and read a couple poems and see what I thought.

Instead, I started at the first page, which I never do on a book of poetry.

Something very strange, otherworldly, morphic fieldly happened...

I could not put this book down!! I read every page, cover to cover, including the acknowledgments and the notes. And then I went back and read chunks of it again. This book is a revelation! It is one of the most amazing, powerful things I've ever…

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