Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems LGBTQ+ from the Renaissance Italian "Night

from the Renaissance Italian "Night Police" to the 20th century "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy

Akane is the last person Makoto would think of as a nerd

The secrets of the Hirana call to Priya

There was an eight-year age difference between them

Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems LGBTQ+ from the Renaissance Italian "NightWhen I left home I took only what I could carry What will you bring with you down the path, through the hills and into the woods? Fragments, stories, living things? Echoes of the past, promises for the future? In fifty new and collected poems, Marisca Pichette celebrates myth, folklore, and memory. Her poems traverse landscapes both real and imagined, taking inherited tales and retelling them through a queer lens. From dusk into the night and out