"BEAST FEAST offers opposition to the Emersonian mythology of peaceful Nature by suggesting the histories of cruelty and commodity that inhabit the forests of America. By supposing the 'weirdness' of nature--which includes the weirdness of humans and animals in their bodies--the poems in this collection evoke the sense of immediacy of being, accidentally, 'in the world' of history, capital, bodies, laws, desires, and phenomena"--

"In Gephyromania (literally, an addiction to or an obsession with bridges), Tolbert's choice isn't between female and male, lover and self, or loss and relief, but rather to live (willingly, intentionally) in the places where those binaries meet. Questions arise: Is a bridge simply an attempt to connect one (seemingly) stable body back to itself? Whose body--which embodiment--is absent when we say "I miss you"? And who is adored when we say "I love"?...