Pygmy

Becker is one of the witnesses we desperately need, whose hard-earned understanding widens to admit reality in all its complicated layers, and whose ferocious hunger for accuracy insists on a restless questioning.--Laura Mullen, author of After I Was Dead and The Surface. Julie Becker's PYGMY is a rollicking collection of determinedly honest poems. At times curious, flaky, confused, witty and revelatory, these poems never stint in their active energy. "Quickly over the first time read so as not to be saturated and feel the leaving alone of it has vinegared me inside puckered so I can't open my tongue out to catch whatever I had forgotten whatever's falling please be falling from me your pencil."