Gazing Down On ItLauren de S Naylor Gazing Down On It is a collection of dream narratives, of language as weapon or prayer, compiled in the plague year of 2020. These fragments iterate a pervasive concern with embodiment in relation to others, boundaries and their transgression, and the shifting slipping quality of roles and identities such as wife, mother, daughter, parent, queer, artist, witch and especially, woman (all terms that discomfort).

and visual artist

I love her love of detail

mijn pijntjes en de indiscrete knipogen

several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review

both maniacal and generous in her fury

PUNT holds an elsewhere’s gently exorcized quotidian

this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing conventions

The voice in you reclaims life from change and time and affirms it anew

Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was romancier

Clark Coolidge received an unexpected gift of a crystal

Cineteca di Bologna)

and disaster-prone persona of her earlier works