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Refusenik by Lynn MelnickIn this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th centurys misplaced priorities, Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti Semitism across time and a shifting global landscapefrom a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughters Brooklyn bedroom. Variously unraveling and allowing

his grand hymn celebrating the history and future of America and the possibility of ecstatic connection—which to him the Brooklyn Bridge symbolized

Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times

is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

gentrifying barrios

and all manner of aesthetic delight

The answer is like Jason Koo

Bicher's language is brilliantly spare

they fill our hollows with music

and Frank Lima

while ultimately working to disrupt this Westernized desire

'Let's prowl the great desert

where he did some of his greatest work