Natalie Lyalin's Relentless Blood Makes Me Faint But I Go For It

Natalie Lyalin's second collection of poems, Blood Makes Me Faint But I Go For It (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), has been reviewed at Los Angeles Review! Alyse Bensel writes that the work "amasses a steady stream of exclamations and observations that coalesce into familial loss, an overarching specter of continuous labor and remembrance." And:

The title poem “Agrarian” juxtaposes farm animals with the speaker, who claims “Hello, I am a new type of animal / There are gaggles of us in this country / We are singing in our mother tongues.” Throughout the collection, the body is ever-present and exposed to the world, hardened and shaped through the everyday. The dispossessed stand their ground, ever restless and wanting to continue forward. Whether packed in prose or in short lines that race down the page, these poems remain relentless and entrenched in the belief that those with resilience will also have the power to persist.

Read it all at Los Angeles Review.