"One of our keenest and funniest Leftist poets. . . a project director at the Labor Institute, he’s been working in the trenches of [union struggles]. . . for occupational safety. health, and the environment for more than two decades . . .Toscano’s poems can be elated, despondent, theoretically sophisticated, savagely critical . . . [and] wildly funny."
—Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
"The difficulty of doing a catastrophe justice . . . the book oscillates between Ancient Egypt and 'Fenty / Beauty ambassador”' Sonic ancestors: Lena Horne, Sun Ra, Al Green, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony . . . are the points of contact by which a stolen history might be clawed back: 'black music is the music of forensics // all my dead friends come to me as songs.'"
—David Wallace, The Paris Review
Essential listening: Harmony Holiday, Fred Moten, improvisation, conversation, and music immersion.
