
As I moved through A Catalogue of the Further Suns I found myself, as a member of the human species, alien-ized. I found myself alien-ating. I found myself in a labyrinth of mirrors that reflected back and forth among the histories of colonization and mass extinction. While reading these poems I slipped, for fractions of fractions of moments, just the tiniest distance outside of my human brain—and observed it from without—something I've wanted to do my whole life. This speculative poetry brings to mind Norman Dubie's The Spirit Tablets at God Lake, and Danielle Pafunda's Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies, and the wormholes within wormholes in William Blake's mythopoetic—in other words, this book is a profoundly worthwhile WTF. — Sarah Vap, judge of the 2016 Poetry Chapbook Competition