Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Like the best songs, Julie Choffel’s The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love is a poem fueled by desire. To have 'so many / ways to say I want' is dangerous and selfish, we’ve heard: we should be content; we should be grateful. But 'women are never / not hungry,' Choffel’s mother-speaker insists, aware that her life plays out as two tracks in the same song-the material world of meals and routines as well as the imaginative realm. Poetry is this 'parallel universe,' these 'other zones,' this 'floor / under the garbage,' these subterranean places where we meet to tend to different hungers. In Choffel’s hands, these spaces bloom with deep seeing and wry humor: 'there I go / again trying to liberate us from what we don’t know.' The poem becomes a vehicle for satisfying its own longings, a gift then passed along to us as readers-so that we, too, might dance to such a soundtrack in our kitchens and in the otherworlds that envelop the everyday. If you’re willing to risk being brought back to your own desires, enter The Inevitable Return.-Becca Klaver
