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Nikki Wallschlaeger's work has been featured in The Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called ""Operation USA"" through the Baltimore-based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.
Wallschlaeger's latest collection is political, personal, and timely. -- Publishers Weekly How can you not be grateful, in such an ugly time, for a poet who so closely and wryly and wrenchingly and furiously observes a nation? --Chicago Tribune She deploys a new vocabulary for talking about the legacies of slavery and white supremacy as they manifest in daily life--a vocabulary that is as damning as it is lush, as rich with sound as it is bright with image... The domestic scenes she makes in her poems complicate cliches of who black women in America are 'supposed' to be. --Hyperallergic The first-person perspective is harrowing and heartbreaking in its vulnerability and honesty. -- Luna Luna Magazine Wallschlaeger's is a poetics of multiplication and plurality. -- Entropy I admire the grave persistence of her vision, the precision of her eye and ear. --Joyelle McSweeney
