Know that feeling when you read something so good, your eyes get wide and your jaw drops and you start swearing at your laptop, and everybody else at Starbucks stares at you like you’ve gone insane? Yeah, that’s what happened to me when I came across the poetry of Sara Hughes. From the tender mortality of “The Kingdom of Childhood” to the playful, coming-of-age eroticism in “The Makeout Party,” her well-crafted poems shine with wit, humility, and grace. Think of that famous quote from Emily Dickinson: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
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Your laughing, or me trying to make it happen,
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