I dare you to enter Kara Dorris' brutal and astounding HitBox, where we begin "curled up, practicing crash / positions, hearts cradled by claws & wings." Part fairytale, part video game, part self-defense manual, these poems plumb the limits of empathy, the inextricability of pain and healing, and the relentlessness of violence. "You have to hold on & ride, arrive / on the other side despite the hits." Dorris deftly shows us how-how...
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