Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose Ali Lewis a call and response that

a call and response that echoes through the spaces where our collective understanding of public tragedy collides with the vestiges of personal memory

A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV

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Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose Ali Lewis a call and response thatThin Spells is a startling collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the ecological past. The poems are shot through with teeth, fur and feathers: from 'Cat Calling Card', charged with the energy of the hunt, to the snarling heart of 'Monokoke,' to the unsettling transformation of 'On Mother's Day' where the speaker slips 'into otter skin.' The poems consistently blur the unstable line between the animal and human and celebrate