Button Poetry

46 pages, $12

Review by Yanyi Luo

A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters is a book of bridges. Within, tiny machines are drawn between self as self, self as lover, self as monster. Contrary to the title, no monsters are laid bare for examination. Rather, they are pressed between sections, folk and mythic characters metamorphosed through the speakers of Sax’s three-headed introductory triptychs, all titled “Bestiary”:

charybdis—

when i suck in / i make deadly / whirlpools / ask anyone
who’s managed / to climb out / alive

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