“‘I’m just trying to resemble / this ancient water of which I am the child,’ Gill writes, and then there it is in the room with us—the weight of the centuries, the weight of the trying. Spawn is unforgettable poetry of the highest order.” —Kaveh Akbar
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“This is poetry that claims the power to ‘gnaw the meat off each day and spit out the pin bones’ through a language as unresolved as our decolonial dreams and as necessary as our sovereign desires."
—Urayoán Noel