all the time more than anything by Emily Zogbi

“Emily Zogbi‘s first collection weaves the abstract and the accessible so cleanly, tightly and honestly that it should be put on the top of any poetry lovers to read pile. Zogbi tackles the extremely difficult subjects of personal tragedy and what it means to be a woman with all of the excitement and control of a ballerina with a sledgehammer. Her work is by no means clumsy. She smashes only that which deserves to be broken – callousness, misogyny, and silence – then builds something beautiful from the rubble. Zogbi’s handling of the personal is inspiring: quiet and simple when necessary, loud and brash when worthy, and wrapped in delicate metaphors when nothing else will do.”

–Jared Singer, author of Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

“Emily Zogbi’s all the time more than anything comes to us from a world that feels slightly off kilter, where the living and the dead mingle in kitchens and bedrooms and forests and asylums. She explores this world confidently, comfortably, recording each strangeness encountered there with a clear if not entirely unsuspicious eye, whether it’s a “refrigerator door swinging open / like the flag of a surrendering army” or a dragonfly with “the face of a lion and the hands of a person / I loved whose voice was not a voice // I recognized.” While Zogbi’s poems often proceed like waking dreams, what steers them around the easy trap of surrealism is her deep sense of empathy. This book is a rare and entrancing gift.”

–Mark Bibbins, author of 13^th Balloon