Katabasis Monologues for the Dead

Heather Harris-Bergevin is a rare gift. Exactly how she casually flips a few millennia of human history, mythology, literature, psychology, science and folklore upside down, shakes out all the best bits, and then weaves them into something so entirely brand new is one of the great mysteries of our age—Katabasis certainly feels nothing short of magic. After a debut collection so astonishingly good it left readers gasping, it seemed nearly impossible for her to surpass her own first book. But if Lawless Women was “thought-provoking,” Katabasis has leveled the poet’s work up to “thought openly-picking-a-bar-brawl”—and this reader couldn’t be more thrilled. An astoundingly brilliant, astonishingly fresh collection.