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Asterism by Ae Hee LeeIt is quite commonplace when describing a new volume of poetry to resort to stock, albeit wholly appropriate, descriptors. Stunning and dazzling come immediately to mind. So, too, compelling. Im sure Ive used such phrases myself, and would now when writing about Asterism, were this book not so fresh that it makes one self conscious of, and encourages the reader to want to lean away from, anything resembling the familiar. The range in theme would be

From the favela to the Amazon to the astral plane

Startling and seductive in equal measure

Many seniors feel thrown away

GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency

to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and

She's "cut off the head to let the humors hose through

She elegizes the exile of our sentient bodies in this anthropocene era of digital capitalism

and traditions that shaped him

because who really needs to harvest fire

full of unconventional portraits of longing—for safety

Her superior vision gives access to histories of genocide and ecocide

First to wobble in pleasure and pain and first to be represented by the moon