Sometimes We Walk With Our Nails Out

Poetry. "Sarah Bartlett's poems are like icicles: crystalline, delicious, and capable of taking you down. 'We practice keeping our distances intact,' she writes in the stunning title poem of this collection, & that practice is both a feint and a condition—the intimacy offered here, tender, goofy, and seething, is predicated on the artist's cool reserve. This book might promise you cornbread, but it'll be wolverine cornbread, and soon you won't want any other kind."—John Beer