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- ""YOU. is a book-length poem that interrogates masculinity, sexuality, and love; that wrestles with on highly personal terms, the lasting imprints of Phenomenology and religion; that documents the struggles of mental health and addiction; that revivifies and reimagines father-daughter literature; that draws upon canons of both Western literature and world literature"--"
- ""YOU. In verse that is both wild and taut with controlled fire, YOU. careens through a psychic underworld of passion and imprecation where husband and wife, father and daughter, addict and rehab, self and God, join and divide. Joseph Wood's book-length screed haunts like a Rilkean summons: YOU. must change your life.You were every disease I never knew. You were each collapsing cell. You were the microscope, the telescope, the reasons why I fell into your arms, baby, like a problem. Math explains the universe.Joseph P. Wood has written nine works of poetry, including Broken Cage, finalist for the 2013 National Poetry Series. He teaches English at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and is managing editor at Noemi Press"--"