'There are many definitions for occult, but we tend to fixate on one: of, or relating to, supernatural phenomena. That's as good a place as any for readers of Stationed Near the Gateway to start, but it's just one beginning. "The world is vast," after all, and Margaret Bashaar has evoked more definitions for occult than you ever knew existed. Smart and sexy, bloody and beautiful, her poems invite us to explore all that is hidden and concealed—from the physical world just beyond our sight to the symptoms of near-undetectable disorders. "Come with me into the dark," Bashaar says. Yes, yes. We should all pray to walk so deeply into the shadows and never flinch. Yes.' -T.A. Noonan, author of The Bone Folders, Petticoat Government, and four sparks fall