Adult Night at Skate World by Christina Kallery

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Adult Night at Skate World by Christina KalleryThe poems in Adult Night at Skate World sift out the glitter in the gravel, unearthing both heartbreak and moments of transcendence in the seemingly mundane. These are songs of the anti poetic, overlooked and assumed lost cause: Craigslist Missed Connections, getting snubbed at a rock show, middle aged roller rink attendees, the class loser, a swan longing to mate with a paddleboat. But instead of scorn, they invite our laughter. Instead of dismissal,

Harold Bloom

Nurkse’s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown

The book cranes our necks to see what could be on the other side

unexpected places

Ecuadorian decimas

this “gorgeous” (The New York Times

and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety

Robertson Award

immigrant neighborhood of Kensington

Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs

When he orders the lines disperse

and naïveté continue to charm