melt by Sarah Hymas Robert Fitterman ’— John Sibley Williams‘These poems

’— John Sibley Williams‘These poems will break your heart but leave you feeling uplifted

it has also been one of the privilege of material security and whiteness

Deborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University

both blissful and broken by the sheer

melt by Sarah Hymas Robert Fitterman ’— John Sibley Williams‘These poemsmelt, structurally influenced by the poets work as an artistbook maker, enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen, and seemingly remote. Here, Hymas creates a poetic space of ocean as an assemblage of animal, plant, plastic, mineral, technology, human and more, a book that reaches for an ecological mutuality, a reorientation of that which appears distant into a poetic proximity. And just as there is no one way to read the sea, there is no