

Review of Hard Child by Natalie Shapero
I reviewed Natalie Shapero's Hard Child for the Ploughshares Blog. Check it out here.

Things similar & dissimilar
A 17th century still-life painted by Rachel Ruysch & a Vietnamese poem by Vo Que (translated to English by Fred Marchant & Nyguen Ba Cheung). Peaches, grapes, and plums with a dragonfly, snail, caterpillar, moths, and other insects on a stone ledge. Rachel Ruysch, Dutch, 1683. From Fred Marchant's new book, Said Not Said