Surprise me. That’s what I want from poetry, and in her nuanced, beautifully cerebral debut, Thea Brown delivers a poetics rife with grammatical slippage and shifting rhetorics, a language whose revelatory linguistic possibilities awaken the page. —Alice Fulton To “think of the danger†does little to dissuade its arrival—especially when, as in Thea Brown’s probing debut, thinking may be the danger itself. —Dan Beachy-Quick