Cut Side Down BIPOC ” plus countless other joyous

” plus countless other joyous and/or reckless assignments

sharing a wall

It is a novel about beauty

a married woman travels out of town to see what it’s like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger

a voice of the Palestinian people and one of the most transcendent poets of his generation

Cut Side Down BIPOC ” plus countless other joyousCut Side Down is a textual collage, or a book feasting on books. The title is a metaphor for the sensuous paper cut received when diving face first into the bookcase, and it means to call up the pleasure and pain of contact with so many literary personalities. The poems are collapsing under the weight of influence and the result is a sumptuous, body and mind bending landscape. The book is written in three parts, but those parts refuse to remain