Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu WW Norton & Co followed by a gig from

followed by a gig from the Pogues

you will retrieve a spark of personal power in your belly

Jonathan Kinsman’s The Fireman’s Daughter has the bombast of a Jim Steinman song (referenced in one poem)

Faced with the inseparability of the non-human world from human destructiveness

Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu WW Norton & Co followed by a gig fromEternal Worm by Ezra Chiu is a short, unnervingly intimate pamphlet that works through compressed lyric fragments to examine the textures of dependency, disordered embodiment, and queer attachment. The pamphlet sets its erotic and domestic material against a scriptural frame of abhorred flesh, though the register it actually inhabits is closer to the abject tender: tapeworms, discharge, ants in water, pear rot, a microwaved bloomer rolled in sugar in