Not Your Mama's Melting Pot

“From jump, there was such sonic, emotional, and intellectual drive to these poems, that I couldn’t resist–why would I want to–the pull of Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s vision and sensibility. Verve and élan are words I might use, but they lack sufficient verve and élan. And if I wrote, ‘his future is bright, ‘ I’d be wrong–his future is here, and this book is as much fire as I can ask for.” —Bob Hicok, author of Hold