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By turns elegiac and dishy, Brookshire invites you to a tea party of bold, crafty poets. Imitation becomes a spiritual exercise, an attempt to rewrite the past and thus heal from it. Reading these poems, you feel the frisson of recognition he must have felt encountering the work of feminist and queer icons such as Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and Andrea Gibson. He’s learned the power of detail, the possibilities of form, and an unflinching approach to experience. In the process of imitation, he has developed a unique voice that ranges from clarion confessional to arch and snarky, always in service of palpable human truth. The interplay of form and subject mirrors the ebbs and flows, joys and griefs of a community, delighting the reader with his craft, but winning us over with his heart.
-Amy Lemmon, author of Saint Nobody
In Repeat As Needed, Brookshire’s poems are politically engaged and urgent—an exploration of how the past informs the present, and a searing look at the duality of a world where one is called to both embrace and hide one’s true self.
–Rachel M. Hanson, author of The End of Tennessee
The chapbook queen, Dustin Brookshire, has done it again. The poems in Repeat as Needed are as tender as they are fierce. They explore themes from getting over a heartbreak – Go to Costco. /Eat samples. – to the current political landscape as Life was hard when the president was orange. These emulations play with form and collaboration. They dip and twirl to give us the poetry prescription we need.
–Tyler Gillespie, Florida Man: Poems, Revisited
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