New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds Christopher Smart and laboriously transformed it into

and laboriously transformed it into viable farmland

Its sequence of 80 prose poems creates a patchwork of narratives which share the challenges faced by women

he was sent to an approved school for being uncontrollable

and I like to think a little bit of me is nested in all the friends I’ve made

New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds Christopher Smart and laboriously transformed it intoNew Famous Phrases responds to past mythologies, folklore, and the work of other writers, and creates new works from them, in addition to offering new mythologies of its own; ecological and aquatic myths run throughout the collection. The collection also reflects on the poetic art itself, the crafting of new famous phrases, and the theme of writerly ambition indicated in its title; for example, the collection's final poem, Scraps to Daub a Siren's