ARGONAUT BOOKS

Containing poems about diverse topics, this book, at its core, is an account of sexual assault and its aftermath. Using irony, humor, and associative logic, the speaker engages in a critique of capitalism and the ways women's bodies are monitored, exploited, and expected to conform under that system. Reviews retribution forthcoming fuses the abject with the sincere, the tender with the perverse. Katie Berta's voice is straight-up. Barefaced. Flat-out. She catalogs both the worthwhile and the intolerable and the result is exhilarating: a killing bite into the marrow of whatev...Read More