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Chavez’s micro chapbook explores the body and grief in all is messiness. This epistolary collection is both haunting and haunted, the speaker’s voice well-crafted and sure, poems intimate and woven like a spell, a dream so vivid it pulls us in.

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The Cultural Daily

The Friday Influence

"[I]t’s the poetic sensibility on display in these poems — a sensibility able to honor a lost loved one in a way that is intimate as well as accessible — that marks the accomplishment and gift they are to the elegiac and epistolary traditions."

-José Angel Araguz