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Sy Hoahwah Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2021. 64 pages.
TO ENTER SY HOAHWAH'S Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride is to immerse yourself in liminality and enter the poet's world of monsters and medicine (see WLT, May 2017, 53). Portal imagery recurs throughout the book: doorways, a window through which the speaker escapes from "the sunset's Luciferan face," and a "blood trail" leading to the sky that opens to the "next world." This world and the next are separated only by...